Carey Buchanan
Helping you build workable coping strategies
About Carey
Carey Buchanan works from practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship problems. She uses plain, collaborative conversation to untangle issues and find small steps that make daily life easier. Carey is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience working in the United Kingdom.
Carey draws on several therapy methods to match what each person needs. She often uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult feelings and move toward values-based choices. Attachment-based work helps when early relationships affect current trust and intimacy. Carey helps clients look at patterns that repeat in friendships and partnerships and try different ways of relating.
She also integrates client-centred listening to create space for people to find their own solutions. Therapy sessions tend to focus on clear goals and practical skills. Carey offers ways to cope with grief, compassion fatigue, chronic health issues, sleep problems and parenting stress.
Conversations cover communication, boundaries, commitment concerns and rebuilding self-esteem. Carey has experience in face-to-face and online settings, and she draws on work in health and social care environments. Her style is straightforward and warm, with attention to realistic steps rather than vague promises.
People are invited to bring the issues that matter most to them and to try approaches that fit their day-to-day life.
What Carey works with
How Carey works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and difficult feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions so daily life feels more meaningful even when emotions are hard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going and introduces practical experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current trust and closeness and supports people to try different ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to concerns and goals, then suggest methods that suit the person’s situation. This is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted as progress is made and priorities change.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation and can be used for deeper therapeutic work. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need to fit support around work or caring responsibilities. These formats make it easier to access a regular rhythm of support while fitting therapy into busy lives.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
