About Karen
Karen Martin is a counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, straightforward support for adults feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain or the after-effects of trauma and abuse. Karen aims to help people find more stability, better sleep and a clearer sense of purpose in daily life.
She uses plain conversation and practical tools rather than jargon. Sessions focus on increasing self-awareness and building emotional regulation skills.
Background and approach
Karen adapts her approach to each person, drawing on methods that best fit their situation and goals. With four years of professional experience she has helped people managing addictions, coping with life changes, and working through intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, communication problems and chronic health challenges.
Her work combines client-centred listening with structured techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and other evidence-informed approaches. The tone in sessions tends to be warm and interactive, with an emphasis on small, practical steps that lead to noticeable change. Karen accepts international clients and offers a range of online session formats.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. She aims to partner with clients so they can move forward with clearer choices and more day-to-day balance.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values even when feelings are hard. It suits issues like anxiety, depression and life changes where finding direction is important.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It offers practical techniques for sleep problems, anxiety, stress and unhelpful patterns in relationships.
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape reactions now. This can be useful for intimacy-related concerns, abandonment issues and communication problems.
Karen approaches the choice of methods collaboratively. She will talk with each person about their goals and try a way of working that feels right. If something doesn’t fit, she will adjust the approach together with the client so progress can continue.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different rhythms of life. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging suits brief check-ins or those who prefer text. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, travel or caring responsibilities and help maintain continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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