Carole Ward
Experienced NCPS psychotherapist focused on practical support
About Carole
Carole Ward is a psychotherapist registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). She brings 17 years of practical experience offering talking therapies to people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Carole provides sessions by video, phone, live chat and text messaging to fit different needs and lifestyles.
Her practice combines Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches with EMDR and mindfulness techniques. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with trauma and abuse, and work through grief and loss.
Background and approach
She also supports those living with mood conditions such as bipolar and depression, and people facing life changes or career challenges. Carole has worked in varied settings including supported mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices, learning disability services and charities. That range has given her experience with issues such as addiction, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, caregiver stress and complex co-morbidity.
She draws on this background to tailor sessions to each person’s circumstances. Sessions focus on building strengths, improving communication and exploring attachment patterns that shape relationships and self-esteem. Practical strategies and mindfulness are mixed with longer-term psychodynamic reflection when helpful.
EMDR is used with people who need trauma-focused work. Carole encourages a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work. She frames therapy as a practical step towards clearer thinking, steadier mood and better coping.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their routine.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and self-esteem. Online work uses gentle conversation to identify patterns and build more supported ways of relating to others and to oneself.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions, which suits issues like low confidence, career choices and coping with change.
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, is used when trauma memories are causing ongoing distress. In remote sessions it involves guided processing to reduce the intensity of upsetting images and reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, history and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. That plan is reviewed together so the client stays involved in choosing the focus and pace.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. Together these options increase accessibility and let people try formats that suit their routine.
| 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
