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Karen Ball, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 13 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsDepression
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Karen Ball is a counsellor with 13 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and a range of other life challenges. She offers straightforward, compassionate support to people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
Karen aims to create a calm space where clients can talk about what matters to them.
Background and approach
She listens without judgement and helps people identify options and next steps. Sessions are practical and rooted in the client’s needs rather than a single method. Her background includes training in a broad range of counselling approaches through a BSc (Hons) course in Integral Counselling at Anglia Ruskin University.
Karen draws on several methods to suit each person, including client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, existential thinking, mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing. She also works with issues such as intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, coping with life transitions and ADHD.
Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Karen provides supervision and training for counsellors and health professionals, and she uses creative therapy when words alone aren’t enough. Sessions are offered online and by phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding the person’s experience through careful listening and empathy. It helps people feel heard and supports them to make their own choices about change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce overwhelm and improve focus and sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss what feels most useful, try different ways of working, and agree on goals that match a person’s needs and preferences. This collaborative process means the method can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or ongoing written reflection easy to fit around work and family life. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and homework for each format so therapy stays effective even when it is remote.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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