Carmen Roberts
Helping people regain control and connection
About Carmen
Carmen Roberts helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship problems, trauma and grief. She explains things simply and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical. Carmen's approach is calm and direct, focused on what a person wants to change and how to move forward.
Carmen trained in Therapeutic Counselling and holds a Diploma in Criminal Psychology. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
Her experience includes roles with bereavement support, an NHS eating disorders unit and work connected to policing and employee well-being. In sessions she pays close attention to patterns that repeat in relationships and day-to-day life. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings.
Psychodynamic thinking helps uncover hidden emotions and repeated behaviours, while solution-focused methods keep work practical and goal-oriented. Carmen commonly helps people dealing with issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, control issues and body image concerns. She also supports people facing addiction, eating and food-related problems, and the fallout from domestic violence, divorce or separation.
Her style is collaborative and grounded. Conversations aim to make problems easier to manage and to find small, achievable changes. Carmen works with each person to set clear goals and review progress over time.
What Carmen works with
How Carmen works
Listed by Carmen among the ways they work.
Listed by Carmen among the ways they work.
Listed by Carmen among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Approaches that shape online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and reactions. It helps when patterns of closeness or separation keep causing pain or conflict in adult relationships.Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to feelings and repeated behaviours that come from past experiences. It aims to bring those patterns into view so they can be changed and no longer steer day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy itself. Carmen works with each person to decide which ideas and methods fit best. This is a joint process based on someone's goals, history and what feels most helpful.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing rather than speaking.
These options add flexibility for scheduling and for keeping momentum between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can use them to deliver consistent, ongoing support that fits 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
