Karen Sturch
Practical, strengths-based support for life challenges
About Karen
Karen Sturch helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. She works with issues such as addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and concerns about identity and relationships. Karen also supports people dealing with anger, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She uses clear, goal-focused ways of working. Sessions tend to be practical and collaborative. Karen encourages people to notice their strengths and small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
She aims for straightforward conversations that feel useful from the first sessions. Across 19 years in practice Karen has worked with many different concerns. That experience informs how she tailors sessions to each person.
She draws on methods that help people reframe unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours between meetings. Clients can expect a calm, supportive approach that balances listening with practical tools. Karen pays attention to attachment and family patterns when they matter to someone's situation.
She also brings experience helping people cope with chronic pain, illness or disability and with the fallout of separation and loss. Her practice is inclusive of LGBT issues and first responder stresses, and she addresses problems such as panic attacks, post-traumatic stress and mood disorders. Karen aims to help people find clearer direction and steadier coping in everyday life.
What Karen works with
How Karen works
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Sessions & fees
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Karen uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT sessions typically involve setting clear goals, testing small experiments between sessions and learning practical coping skills for anxiety, panic, mood problems and stress.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy which concentrates on strengths and what is already working. This approach helps people map out small, realistic steps towards specific goals and notice progress quickly, which can suit issues like relationship concerns, life transitions and coping with burnout.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Karen will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit the person she is working with. That means sessions can shift between problem-focused work and short-term, solution-focused steps as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, and live chat or text messaging suits quicker check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy around work, family and other commitments and make ongoing support more accessible for many people.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
