Caroline Mordey
Compassionate counsellor using practical approaches
About Caroline
Caroline Mordey is a counsellor who aims to help people navigate hard moments. She presents as calm and straight-talking, and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier. Caroline's background includes work with a wide range of concerns, and she speaks English.
Caroline trained as an integrative counsellor and brings together different ways of working to meet individual needs. She uses client-centred listening to understand what matters to each person.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new patterns. In sessions she pays attention to how past experiences shape present feelings, using psychodynamic thinking when it helps to make sense of recurring patterns. Mindfulness approaches are offered to support attention, stress reduction and managing strong emotions.
The mix of approaches is chosen with the person in front of her rather than fixed in advance. Caroline has five years of experience and holds BACP registration. She has worked with concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma and grief, and with people exploring intimacy, identity and addiction-related struggles.
She also addresses practical problems including sleep, eating and coping with life changes. Therapy aims vary by person. Some people want structured work on symptoms, while others prefer open discussion of life history and feelings.
Caroline helps set goals, tries methods that fit each person, and supports steps towards clearer thinking and steadier days. Sessions are offered online in several formats and international clients are accepted. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and arranging sessions to suit each person's situation.
What Caroline works with
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Sessions & fees
How Caroline's approaches work online
Caroline blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural and mindfulness ideas so online sessions can feel focused and personal. Client-centred work means the therapist listens closely and follows what matters to the person, helping them feel heard and making space to name difficult feelings. Cognitive behavioural techniques involve spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small changes in behaviour to test new ways of coping, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Mindfulness practice teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and increase calm, and these are easy to practise between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try options and adjust what is used over time. That collaborative way helps make sure therapy suits each person's needs rather than following one fixed method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different circumstances. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and let the therapist and person read non-verbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to carry forward practical changes discussed in sessions.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English