About Karen
Karen Bell is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 18 years of experience. She takes a person-centred approach and focuses on making clients feel heard and respected from the first contact. Karen works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief and relationship concerns.
Her background includes counselling in a GP surgery and trauma work with people who have experienced child sexual abuse and suicidal feelings.
Background and approach
She has also provided occupational health counselling for Northumbria Police, which brought extensive experience in trauma, stress and workplace-related demands. These roles shaped her practical, calm way of working. Karen uses approaches that respond to what each person needs.
Sessions are led by the client’s concerns and pace, with space to talk through difficult memories and current pressures. She also draws on techniques that can help reduce distress and improve day-to-day coping. She is experienced supporting people who have experienced narcissistic abuse and gaslighting, and she reassures clients that their experiences are valid.
Clients of any gender, sexuality, culture or religion are welcome to bring their full selves to sessions. Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Karen blends person-centred practice with targeted methods to help people manage symptoms and understand patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour; it can help with trust, intimacy and attachment issues by naming patterns and practicing different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking and improve daily routines. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, abbreviated EMDR, is used to process distressing memories so they feel less overwhelming and can be useful for trauma-related problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Karen discusses goals and preferences and helps decide which method or combination feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process that can change as therapy progresses and new needs emerge.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be quicker to arrange, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or days when writing feels easier. These formats offer flexibility so people can access consistent support around work, family or mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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