Karen Murdock
Support for stress, trauma and life changes
About Karen
Karen Murdock offers support for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, low self-esteem, grief and anger. She also helps with relationship strains, career uncertainty, compassion fatigue, ADHD and coping with major life changes. Karen presents a calm, practical presence and focuses on what someone needs right now.
She uses straightforward conversation and tailored techniques to help people feel steadier and more able to cope. Karen works from a client-centred perspective that places the person's experience at the heart of therapy.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thinking and on psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that repeat over time. Sessions are adapted each week to match current needs and goals. This means some weeks focus on practical skills and other weeks go deeper into past influences.
Her background includes four years of professional practice and registrations with BACP and NCPS. Karen has particular experience supporting people living with chronic pain, chronic fatigue and long-term medical conditions. She understands the emotional, practical and social strain these situations create.
People can expect a warm, non-judgemental space where listening comes first. The work aims to build better self-regulation, clearer communication and stronger resilience. Karen supports gradual changes that fit daily life rather than quick fixes.
Therapy can involve short-term problem-solving or a longer period of reflection and change. Sessions are arranged to suit the person, and conversations focus on realistic steps towards feeling more in control and hopeful about the future.
What Karen works with
How Karen works
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Sessions & fees
How Karen’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and feelings, offering a dependable space to be heard and understood. It helps when someone needs support making sense of emotions and finding their own solutions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thinking, feelings and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills for problems like anxiety, low mood and sleep disruption.
Psychodynamic work pays attention to repeating patterns and early relationships that shape how someone reacts now. It can help uncover underlying reasons for recurring difficulties and offers a route to longer-term change.
Choosing the best approach is usually collaborative. Karen will discuss what feels right, try out different strategies, and adjust the focus as goals evolve. The process is aimed at finding methods that match the person’s needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation like a face-to-face session. Phone can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, brief contact that can fit around work or caregiving. These options make therapy easier to fit into a busy life and support ongoing 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
