About Karen
Karen Martin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping adults regain balance during difficult times. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems and life changes. Karen aims to help clients build clearer ways of living that feel more fulfilling and manageable.
She uses a blend of talk-based work and body-aware practices to support change.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and grounded, with an emphasis on increasing self-awareness and emotional regulation. Karen draws on cognitive behaviour techniques alongside client-centred listening to help people notice patterns and try different responses. In therapy she explores the personal story that led someone to seek help.
That includes looking at beliefs and habits that might be holding a person back. The pace is collaborative and respectful, with space to process painful memories and gradual steps toward new coping skills. Her background includes four years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Karen speaks English and accepts international clients for online work. Sessions can be arranged by completing the online matching questionnaire and booking through the service. People who come to Karen usually want steady, practical support rather than quick fixes.
The focus is on small, sustainable changes so daily life becomes more manageable and meaningful.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily signals - posture, breathing and physical tension - alongside thoughts and feelings. It can help when stress, trauma or chronic pain show up in the body as well as the mind. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. It suits people wanting to act differently despite ongoing worries or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relational patterns shape current relationships and emotional responses; it can be useful when trust, closeness or repeated hurt are present.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through preferences, goals and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's needs and adapt as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and body-based noticing, phone sessions can be easier on busy days, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while still working on clear goals and everyday coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English