- Years in practice
- 13
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Karen
Karen Ball is a counsellor with 13 years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Karen welcomes people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression or difficult life changes and helps them to consider options and make workable choices.
Her background includes a BSc (Hons) in Integral Counselling from Anglia Ruskin University. That training covered many theoretical models, and Karen draws on several approaches rather than following a single method.
Background and approach
She also works as a supervisor and a trainer for other counsellors and healthcare professionals. Sessions are practical and straightforward. Karen uses talking, reflection and creative methods when words are hard to find.
She supports people through bereavement and loss in many forms, including loss of career or lifestyle, and the loss of pets. Her work includes addressing relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, anger and self-esteem. She also helps with trauma, attachment concerns, neurodiversity topics such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and longer-term health or caregiving stresses.
Karen mixes client-centred ways of working with psychodynamic ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and motivational interviewing. The aim is to tailor sessions to each person's needs, offering clear steps and encouragement as they work through change. People who want a hands-on counsellor and occasional creative tasks may find her style helpful.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat and text messaging to fit different routines and preferences.
What Karen works with
Everything Karen lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Karen helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Karen lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own answers. Online sessions let the counsellor reflect and guide in a way that encourages self-exploration and clearer choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it suits online work where tasks and homework can be shared and reviewed between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit each person's goals and preferences. This may mean combining listening, practical CBT strategies and mindfulness exercises over a few sessions to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that matters, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, parenting and other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
Questions people ask about Karen
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Karen works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping issues, anger, self-esteem and career questions.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She follows a person-led approach that combines client-centred listening with practical techniques from CBT, mindfulness and motivational interviewing when useful.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years' experience in counselling and also provides supervision and training for other professionals.
What are her professional credentials and where is she based?
She is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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