Karen MurdockBACP, NCPS

Karen Murdock supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep problems and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, anger, career questions, ADHD and coping with big life changes. Karen uses a practical, down-to-earth style so conversations feel manageable and focussed on what matters now.

Karen is a counsellor with four years' experience. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Karen blends person-centred ideas with psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural approaches to suit each person's needs. That means sessions can include reflective conversation, noticing patterns from the past, and straightforward coping strategies to try between meetings.

Sessions are shaped around what the individual brings. Karen listens, asks clear questions, and works collaboratively to set small, realistic goals. She offers direct techniques for sleep, mood and anxiety alongside longer work to understand recurring patterns and relationships.

Karen has particular insight into chronic pain, chronic fatigue and psycho-somatic illness and how these affect daily life, work and family roles. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care histories, attachment and abandonment issues, body-image concerns, and caregiver stress.

Her practice aims to be calm and non-judgemental. People are invited to explore feelings, try new ways of coping and build skills for lasting change. To begin, follow the site's matching process and schedule according to therapist availability.

Practical approaches for online counselling

Karen describes Client-Centred Therapy as a way to place the person's own goals at the centre of each session, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and gentle reflection to help people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is explained as a hands-on approach that looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teaches simple strategies to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and lift mood. Psychodynamic work pays attention to patterns that come from earlier relationships and helps people understand how those patterns affect current feelings and choices.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Karen will talk with each person about what they want to achieve, try techniques in-session, and adjust methods based on what feels most useful. The process is collaborative and paced to fit individual needs and preferences.

Confirm the available session formats before booking as these are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, avoid travel time and allow short check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to use practical CBT exercises and reflective conversation from wherever is most convenient, helping therapeutic work continue between appointments.