Karen Bannerman
Experienced counsellor for stress and relationships
About Karen
Karen Bannerman welcomes people looking for calmer days and clearer thinking. She uses straightforward conversation to help with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. Her name appears here so visitors know who they would be speaking with.
Karen has 25 years of professional experience and is registered with the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). Her approach is practical and person-centred. She listens first and helps people make sense of what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, and building small skills that make daily life easier. Karen draws on several therapeutic ideas to suit different concerns. She uses client-centred work to follow each person's priorities, cognitive behavioural techniques to address anxious or depressed thinking, and attachment-based thinking to look at how past relationships shape current ones.
Mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas are added where they help someone understand feelings and behaviours. She has worked across many settings over a long career and is comfortable helping with grieving, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and body-image concerns, parenting stresses, and career or life changes.
Karen also supports people facing chronic illness, carer strain, ADHD and a range of personality and attachment difficulties. Sessions are offered in English and take place online in formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and can then schedule sessions according to the platform's booking process.
What Karen works with
How Karen works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. It can help when trust, closeness or repeated relationship problems cause distress. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours to reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful routines. Client-centred therapy puts the person's priorities front and centre and offers a respectful, non-judgemental space to talk things through.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and work together to choose methods that fit. That collaborative planning can change over time as needs shift and progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving or mobility issues. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or want brief, frequent contact rather than a full session. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
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
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
