Carmen Ramos Bolivar
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
About Carmen
Carmen Ramos Bolivar helps people facing relationship strain, grief, low self-esteem, depression, stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with family difficulties, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, and major life changes. Carmen speaks English and Spanish and works from the United Kingdom.
Carmen uses straightforward, conversational therapy. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for practical ways to build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be clear and goal-focused while keeping room for whatever feels most important in the moment. Her approach draws on a mix of methods including cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance-based work. That means helping people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behaviour changes, and learn skills to live with difficult feelings rather than fight them.
Mindfulness techniques are used to help with stress, sleep and grounding in tense moments. With six years of experience, Carmen has helped people navigate loss, family conflict, problems with trust and attachment, and the fallout from separation or infidelity. She also supports people facing chronic illness, chronic pain, and co-morbid mental health challenges.
Sessions pay attention to how past family patterns shape current relationships. Carmen holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
What Carmen works with
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Sessions & fees
How Carmen's approaches work online
Carmen draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and small behaviours that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and learning to live with difficult feelings while taking steps that matter to you; it can help with chronic pain, stress and coping with loss.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen will discuss options and adapt methods to the person's needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative so the person and the therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to shift direction.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is close to a face-to-face session, phone can work with limited bandwidth, live chat may suit a quick check-in, and messaging allows short reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility for different routines, schedules and communication styles, and make it easier to fit 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
