Carol Shields
Calm practical support for everyday struggles
About Carol
Carol Shields has ten years of counselling experience and works from the United Kingdom. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, mood instability and addiction. She also supports those facing relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and life changes.
Carol keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She listens first and helps clients set small, clear goals. Conversations aim to build practical skills for coping, managing difficult feelings and improving communication.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace the person finds comfortable. Her work draws on approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and client-centred listening. Carol uses mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed.
She explains techniques simply and practises them together with clients in session. People come to Carol to tackle things like anger, career stress, ADHD symptoms, body image or caregiver fatigue. She also supports LGBT clients and those dealing with grief, abandonment and attachment issues.
Carol offers help for a wide range of life and mental health concerns in plain language and with patience. Sessions are offered in English and Carol accepts international clients. Her BACP membership is shown as BACP.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
What Carol works with
How Carol works
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Sessions & fees
How Carol’s approaches work online
Carol uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts without being driven by them and to focus on values-based action. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions where people want clearer direction.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT techniques help with practical problem solving, managing panic, changing unhelpful thinking and building coping strategies.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will agree which approaches to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people meet face to face from different places. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or fit a busy day. Live chat and messaging work well for ongoing reflection and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
