Karen Bowie
Compassionate counselling for stress and trauma
About Karen
Karen Bowie supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem and relationship difficulties. She also helps with grief, addictions, parenting strain, eating concerns, anger and career-related stress. Karen works with compassion fatigue and long-term conditions too, including chronic pain and caregiver stress.
Karen draws on six years of counselling experience recorded as a BACP member - BACP stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She keeps sessions focused on what matters now, listening closely and helping people name what feels difficult. Conversations are straightforward and paced to each person’s needs. Her approach blends attachment-based work and client-centred listening with psychodynamic thinking and trauma-focused methods.
That means looking at current relationships, how early patterns affect feelings, and practical ways to cope after upsetting events. Sessions make room for both understanding and small steps forward. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through painful memories and day-to-day worries.
Karen aims to help clients build clearer boundaries, stronger self-awareness, and better ways to manage emotions. She pays attention to issues like abandonment, codependency and commitment worries when they come up. Karen provides therapy online using video, phone, live chat or messaging.
Therapy uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
What Karen works with
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Sessions & fees
How Karen’s approaches work online
Karen uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. This can help when trust, closeness or repeating relationship problems cause distress.She also uses client-centred practice, which focuses on listening closely and helping people discover their own solutions. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-worth and coping with life changes because it follows each person’s pace and priorities.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Karen will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they decide what feels most helpful. Sessions can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or times when typing fits better into a busy day.
These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health needs while still working with a registered professional. The focus remains on building understanding, managing symptoms and finding steps forward.
| 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
