Carey-Sue Ham
Empathetic counsellor focused on practical change
About Carey-Sue
Carey-Sue Ham is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of experience. She frames therapy around each person's story and looks for existing strengths to build on. Carey-Sue aims to support people who are ready to make a change and takes a straightforward, compassionate approach.
She often helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She also works with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, intimacy-related issues and sleep problems.
Background and approach
Other areas Carey-Sue addresses include parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career concerns and major life changes. Her practice also covers a wide range of focused concerns such as ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, blended family matters, caregiving stress, chronic illness and cancer-related worry. She supports people dealing with codependency, communication and control problems, and separation or divorce.
Carey-Sue combines practical, person-led conversation with approaches that aim to deepen emotional understanding. Sessions are aimed at helping people talk through painful memories, develop new coping habits and make clearer choices in daily life. She encourages small steps and practical experiments between meetings.
She speaks English and accepts clients in the UK and internationally. Carey-Sue asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin, and she helps match therapy goals to the right way of working. The initial contact is intended to be simple and low pressure.
What Carey-Sue works with
How Carey-Sue works
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Sessions & fees
How Carey-Sue uses therapeutic approaches online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard, clarify their choices and build confidence to try new ways of coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to map out emotional patterns in relationships and inner life so people can understand how feelings shape responses and connection. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and concentration.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carey-Sue will discuss what feels most useful based on a person's goals and preferences. She works collaboratively, adjusting methods as the relationship and needs evolve so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility and choice. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation and allow visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing check-ins, brief reflections between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options support continuity of care and make it easier to attend from different locations.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
