Carly Stafford
Supportive human-centred counsellor
About Carly
Carly Stafford is a counsellor who draws on human-centred methods to guide people through difficult moments. She works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. Carly holds BACP registration and has four years of clinical experience supporting a wide range of concerns.
She focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming. These include stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, grief and loss, and issues around intimacy and sexuality.
Background and approach
Addictions, anger and self-esteem difficulties are included in her caseload. Carly uses client-centred therapy to put the person's experience at the heart of the work. That approach means the session follows what matters most to the client and builds on their own strengths.
She also integrates cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thinking and try small, practical changes. Mindfulness techniques are offered to support grounding and reduce runaway worry. Carly adapts tools to suit each person's needs, whether they are managing workplace stress, social anxiety or trauma-related symptoms.
She also has experience with young adult issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, and self-harm related matters. Sessions are available online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, and international clients are accepted. Carly asks new people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session.
Therapy runs on a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
How Carly's approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The counsellor follows the client's priorities and supports them to make sense of feelings and choices. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and a clearer way to move forward.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps identify unhelpful thinking and tests small changes to reduce anxiety, low mood or workplace stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to calm the mind and manage worry in the moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carly will discuss the options and help decide what fits best with the client's goals, preferences and everyday life. The decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling around other commitments. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets clients write between appointments. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to access support 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
