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Caroline Stevens, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefCoping with life changes
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Caroline Stevens greets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or difficult relationships. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients name what feels hard and find small, practical steps forward. Caroline aims to make the first steps feel less daunting for anyone considering counselling.
Caroline has four years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Background and approach
She draws on a client-centred approach that keeps the person's own experience and goals at the heart of each session. That means the conversation moves at a pace the client sets and focuses on their priorities. In sessions she helps people talk through grief, trauma and abuse, and ongoing stress and anxiety.
She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, self-esteem and career struggles. Caroline pays attention to the emotional experience behind practical problems so people can build skills that last. She also works with issues linked to family background, adoption and foster care, abandonment and blended family challenges.
Other areas she addresses include caregiver strain, body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and recovery from separation and domestic violence. Caroline prefers straightforward, respectful conversations. She aims to highlight strengths a person already has and to practise ways of coping together.
Her goal is for clients to feel more able to manage their day-to-day life and make choices that match their values.
How Caroline’s Client-Centred Work Translates Online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own experience, offering warm, non-judgemental listening and questions that help people make sense of their feelings. It is useful for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns and coping with grief because it helps people clarify what matters to them and discover their own solutions.Online sessions let that same way of working continue through conversation, whether spoken or written. Caroline uses the client-centred stance to follow the client’s lead and to adapt sessions to what each person needs in the moment. Together they decide which style and pace feel most helpful so therapy becomes a collaborative process.
Practical benefits of online therapy include flexibility around timing and mode of contact. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and everyday life while keeping the focus on the client’s goals.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
Contacting Caroline
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