About Karen
Karen Crooks is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and addictions. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains, anger and coping with major life changes. Karen holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as her credential.
Karen believes people are the experts on their own lives. She aims to build on a person’s strengths to move through difficult moments.
Background and approach
Her approach is calm and practical, and she encourages small steps that lead to real change. In sessions Karen uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice and manage strong emotions. She draws on motivational interviewing to support commitment to change and solution-focused methods to set clear, achievable goals.
Trauma-focused work is offered for those processing past harm. Her style is friendly and straightforward. Conversations tend to be down-to-earth, with an emphasis on what can be tried between sessions.
She aims to make sessions feel like two people working together towards realistic goals. People from different places can access her work online. Sessions are arranged to suit each person’s needs and often combine short-term goal setting with gentle exploration of deeper issues.
How online methods and approaches work together
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgement and learn ways to reduce overwhelm. It is often useful for anxiety, stress and sleep difficulties because it teaches simple exercises that can be practised between sessions.Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person’s own reasons for change. A therapist asks open questions and helps clarify goals, which can be helpful for addictions, low motivation and when someone feels stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks at what is already working and sets small, concrete goals to build progress. This approach suits people who want short-term, practical steps to improve relationships, communication or daily coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals and preferences. That means trying things and adjusting what isn’t helpful so sessions feel relevant and manageable.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care and to schedule sessions that fit daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- 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
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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