Karen King
Experienced counsellor who values your strengths
About Karen
Karen King is a counsellor with 11 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, which appears after her name as BACP. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and loss, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
Her approach starts from the belief that each person knows their story best. She treats clients as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
That makes the room a place for practical steps and honest conversations rather than labels and lectures. Karen uses a range of conversational methods to suit different needs. She draws on client-centred ideas to follow the person’s lead.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals and motivational interviewing to help people find their reasons to change. People come to her for many concerns, including depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, and career worries.
Additional focus areas include attachment difficulties, chronic illness and pain, domestic violence, OCD and panic, and sexual assault and abuse. Sessions can be structured or open depending on what someone wants. Karen aims for clear, manageable steps between sessions and practical coping strategies for everyday life.
She supports people who want to rebuild confidence, manage difficult feelings, and make steady changes.
What Karen works with
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Sessions & fees
Approaches and online therapy that focus on progress
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the centre of the work and uses active listening to follow what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to find their own solutions rather than being told what to do.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable goals and practical steps. It suits people who want shorter-term work that targets clear changes in daily routines and coping skills.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find and strengthen their own motivation to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or uncertain about making adjustments in areas like addiction, procrastination or health habits.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods best match a person's needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt the plan as things evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different lives and schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quicker check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit appointments around work, childcare or mobility needs while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
| 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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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English