Karen Barnitt
Compassionate, experienced counsellor focused on recovery
About Karen
Karen Barnitt is a counsellor with 13 years' experience in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Karen offers a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and life changes.
Her work emphasises a client-centred way of meeting people where they are. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for what is most troubling and helps clients spot patterns and choices that feel unhelpful. Karen draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reframe their stories. She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events are affecting everyday life.
These approaches are adapted to each person's needs rather than applied in the same way to everyone. People come to Karen with many concerns, including anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting pressures, career questions, and problems with self-esteem.
She also works with specific areas such as adoption and foster care, BDSM or kink-related issues, body image, postpartum depression and compassion fatigue. Sessions are conversational and paced to the client's comfort. Karen aims to help people build coping strategies, reduce shame and isolation, and make clearer decisions.
Her practice focuses on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Karen works with
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people decide what to work on. This approach suits issues like low self-esteem, stress and life changes where being heard matters most.Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves. It helps separate the person from the problem and can be useful for relationship issues, career doubts, body image or feelings of shame. Together they look for alternative storylines that open up new choices.
Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events continue to cause distress. It helps people make sense of how those events affect thoughts, feelings and relationships today, and works towards reducing the hold of painful memories.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options in the early sessions and tailor methods to the client's goals, preferences and pace. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and messaging let people work through thoughts in writing and fit therapy around a busy day.
| 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
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
