- Years in practice
- 17
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Carole
Carole Ward is a counsellor who draws on 17 years of clinical experience to support people through difficult times. She works online and by phone with people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Carole is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS.
Carole sees the work as a vocation. She focuses on helping people build lasting change in their lives. Sessions are practical and grounded, aimed at improving day-to-day coping and wellbeing.
Background and approach
Her background includes a wide range of settings such as mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices and charities. This mix of experience has led to a flexible approach that suits different needs and situations. Carole uses approaches that put the person’s experience at the centre.
She draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to explore relationships and self-worth. Mindfulness practices are used to help people manage stress and anxiety in the moment. For people affected by trauma, she uses Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR, alongside talking therapies to reduce distress linked to past events.
Motivational Interviewing helps when people want focused support for change, such as substance use or lifestyle shifts. Carole aims to help people recognise their strengths and build on them. She encourages small, manageable steps that fit daily life.
That practical focus is aimed at lasting improvement rather than quick fixes.
What Carole works with
Everything Carole lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Carole helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carole lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Carole’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Online sessions use conversation to map relational patterns, notice how past attachments affect current stresses, and practise different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Client-centred therapy keeps the person’s own experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what is said and helps people find their own solutions. This approach supports self-esteem, decision-making and coping with life changes.
Carole will help clients explore which method fits best. She talks through goals, preferences and practical needs and adjusts the approach as therapy progresses. Choosing the right style is presented as a joint process rather than a one-time decision.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and work more directly. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, quick steps between sessions or when typing feels easier than speaking.
These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel, while keeping the focus on steady, manageable progress.
Questions people ask about Carole
What issues does Carole help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and a range of other concerns listed in her specialities such as parenting, addiction and ADHD.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her practice blends attachment-based and client-centred approaches, with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to keep sessions practical and person-led.
How much experience does she have?
Carole has 17 years of professional experience working in diverse settings including mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices and charities.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Carole provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are arranged through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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