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Karen Hough, 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 issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseDepression
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Karen Hough is a British counsellor with four years of professional experience. She supports people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse. Karen works with people at their own pace and encourages small, manageable steps toward feeling better.
Her practice focuses on clear, direct conversations. Sessions are a place to say what’s on your mind without feeling judged. Karen listens carefully and helps clients notice patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Together they try out new ways of coping that suit each person’s life. She has worked with people facing addiction-related difficulties as well as those dealing with depression. Karen also supports people navigating abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, and blended family challenges.
Other areas she has helped with include chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and body image worries. People describe her work as practical and steady, aiming to reduce immediate pressure while building longer-term skills. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current relationships and stress reactions.
Karen adapts conversations to each person’s needs rather than following a single formula. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. To begin, prospective clients choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding current difficulties and developing practical ways to cope. One common emphasis is helping people notice thought and behaviour patterns that increase distress, then working together to try clearer ways of responding. This kind of work is useful for anxiety, depression and stress-related problems.She also pays attention to how relationships and early attachments shape present-day reactions. That approach looks at how past experiences influence trust, closeness and conflict, which can be helpful for relationship strain, family tensions and attachment concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karen will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adapt techniques to fit their life. She helps clients decide what to try first and reviews progress together so adjustments can be made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that suits you, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, live chat gives a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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