Karen Dodd

• Stress and anxiety
• Relationship issues
• Grief and loss

About Karen

Karen Dodd works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem, life changes, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, career issues and depression. She uses a mix of approaches including Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy. Karen is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has six years' professional experience in the UK.

Karen has experience supporting people affected by cancer and those caring for someone with an illness. She has also worked in a large corporate environment and understands pressures from work, redundancy and balancing employment with family life. She describes practical work on motivation, confidence and managing the shock of life change.

She has worked with people who identify as neurodivergent and offers help with the anxiety that can accompany that. Karen also notes experience with issues linked to ageing and the menopause and with a wide range of relationship and attachment concerns.

In sessions she uses client-centred listening alongside structured cognitive and emotion-focused techniques. That means there is space to talk and for the counsellor to use exercises that may change thinking, feelings or behaviour. Mindfulness practices are offered where helpful to manage stress and ground attention.

Her work includes addressing specific topics such as body image, communication problems, codependency and caregiver stress. Karen aims to help people regain motivation, build self-esteem and manage practical everyday challenges that affect wellbeing.

How her therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and patterns of connection. In practice this means looking at how past and current attachments affect feelings and behaviour, which can help with relationship problems and attachment issues.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) works on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical steps to change them, useful for anxiety, stress and low mood.

Client-Centred Therapy places emphasis on being listened to and understood. The counsellor provides a non-judgemental way to talk things through while working together to identify goals and next steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen will discuss your concerns, goals and preferences and help decide which combination of methods to use. That decision is collaborative and can be reviewed as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Some formats also use less bandwidth or do not require being on camera, which can make sessions simpler to schedule around work and family commitments.

Topics Karen lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Relationship issues
• Grief
• Self-esteem
• Coping with life changes
• Trauma and abuse
• Parenting issues
• Career difficulties
• Depression
• Abandonment
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Co-morbidity
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Narcissism
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Phobias
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy

Questions about Karen

What concerns does she help with?

She helps with stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem, parenting, career issues and depression, among other focus areas such as caregiver stress and body image.

What kind of counselling approach does she use?

She uses a blend of Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to match different needs.

How much experience does she have?

She has six years' professional experience working with people in the United Kingdom.

Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?

She is recorded as BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can I have sessions from outside the UK?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

The biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm the current session options before booking.

How are costs and subscriptions handled?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.