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Caroline Scol, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 24 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseParenting issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changes
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Caroline Scol is a counsellor with 24 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and focuses on practical, person-centred care. Her approach gives people choices about how they work and what they want to change.
Caroline helps with relationships, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, self-esteem and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and career worries.
Background and approach
Her practice covers a wide range of issues including sleep problems, anger, intimacy concerns and ADHD. She uses client-centred work to build a respectful, non-judgemental space where people lead the pace and focus. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify immediate steps and small goals that move things forward.
Trauma-focused methods support recovery from painful past experiences when that is the priority. Sessions tend to be practical and straightforward. Caroline aims to break problems into manageable parts and to find everyday strategies that fit a person’s life.
She encourages people to draw on their existing strengths while trying out new ways of coping. People can expect warmth and clear guidance in sessions. The emphasis is on collaboration - discussing options, setting short-term goals and adjusting the plan as needed.
Caroline supports international clients and runs sessions in English through a variety of online formats. To start, a simple matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are arranged according to availability. Costs vary with location and are billed through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How these approaches work online
Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people set the pace and focus of sessions. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to speak and to make their own choices about change.Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, practical steps and clear goals. Sessions look for what is already working and build on those strengths, which is useful for tackling stress, practical life changes and short-term problems. Trauma-focused therapy addresses the impact of past harm and uses structured approaches to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning when that is needed.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The counsellor will discuss options, try different methods and agree a plan based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. Work can shift over time as needs change, blending client-centred listening, solution-focused tasks and trauma-focused techniques when appropriate.
Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and fuller interaction, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days or provide a written record of ideas. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
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