Karen Crooks, BACP

Karen Crooks is a counsellor who supports people living with health challenges and other stressful life situations. She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to change. Karen offers calm, practical support for those facing anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and sleep or eating difficulties.

She uses straightforward, short-term focused work that aims to make day-to-day life more manageable. Sessions tend to centre on small steps, practical coping strategies, and clearer choices rather than lengthy theory. Karen also draws on mindfulness tools to reduce stress and on motivational techniques to help people find their own reasons for change.

Her background includes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She has three years of professional experience supporting adults through trauma-related issues, codependency, caregiver stress, chronic illness and other complex concerns. This experience shapes a gentle, patient style in sessions.

In practice she aims to help people set realistic goals and notice progress. She will work alongside someone to identify worries, build coping skills, and practise small changes between meetings. Karen encourages direct, easy conversation and practical homework when it helps the person move forward.

If you prefer an approach that combines mindfulness, solution-focused planning and trauma-aware care, she may be a fit. To start you can use the site button to answer a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions according to availability.

How Karen uses mindful and goal-focused methods online

Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention exercises and breathing practice to lessen day-to-day stress and ground attention. It can help with anxiety, sleep problems, chronic pain and coping with long-term health issues.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of talking that helps a person find their own reasons to change. It is useful for addiction concerns, making health-related decisions, and increasing motivation for small steps forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person at the start about needs, goals and preferences, and then adapt methods together. Decisions about which techniques to use are made alongside the client rather than imposed.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time. Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are set by the therapist and may vary. Online sessions can make shorter check-ins easier and allow work around medical appointments or caregiving duties.