Karen Murdock, BACP, NCPS

BACP, NCPS. Four years' experience. Karen Murdock works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, low self-esteem, anger, career concerns, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She also focuses on matters such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family concerns, body image, cancer, caregiving stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication problems, dependent personality, divorce and separation, and domestic violence.

Karen uses an integrative approach that draws on Client-Centred Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas and psychodynamic thinking. Sessions aim to look at what is happening now and how past patterns affect present feelings and behaviour. She works in straightforward terms and helps people notice patterns, try small changes and build coping skills.

In practice she supports people who want more than short-term fixes. Work can include talking through difficult experiences, practising new ways of responding and thinking about deeper patterns that repeat over time. Karen says she adapts the focus to the person sitting in front of her, shifting between practical steps and more reflective exploration.

She has particular experience with the interplay between long-term health problems and emotions, and with the wider impact such problems can have on day-to-day life and family relationships. That background informs how she approaches chronic pain, chronic fatigue and psychosomatic illness.

Sessions are described as attentive and oriented to both insight and strategy. To begin, people follow the usual site steps to match with a counsellor, complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How her approaches work for remote counselling