Karen Ball
Experienced counsellor using practical approaches
About Karen
Karen Ball has practised as a counsellor for 13 years and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works from the United Kingdom and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and difficult life changes. Karen offers a welcoming space to talk and think through problems and decisions.
Her background includes a BSc (Hons) in Integral Counselling from Anglia Ruskin University, where she studied a range of theoretical models.
Background and approach
Karen tailors sessions to each person rather than following a single method. She uses client-centred listening alongside tools from cognitive and mindfulness-based approaches. Karen also brings experience helping with trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and a wide set of related concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem and parenting stress.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, chronic illness and caring responsibilities. She offers several ways to meet remotely, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
People who prefer a collaborative, reflective style may find Karen helpful. She aims to work at each person’s pace, helping them identify choices and practical next steps. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Karen works with
How Karen works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection to help people clarify feelings and choices, which can suit worries about relationships, grief or life direction.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses practical exercises and goal-setting to manage anxiety, low mood, sleep or unhelpful habits.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce stress and improve awareness of emotion and bodily reactions. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and managing chronic health challenges.
Choosing an approach is usually a shared decision. The counsellor will talk through what seems most helpful based on the person’s goals and preferences, and can adjust methods as work proceeds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer discussion, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for flexible, ongoing contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life, and let people pick formats that match how they like to communicate.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
