Caroline Laing
Practical person-centred counselling for life changes
About Caroline
Caroline Laing offers calm, straightforward support to people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She aims to help clients make sense of difficult emotions and take small, realistic steps forward. Caroline introduces clear tools and steady listening so people can rebuild confidence and cope better day to day.
She practises a person-centred style that keeps the client’s experience at the heart of sessions. That approach is paired with solution-focused techniques to set practical goals, and motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
Background and approach
Together these methods are used to address concerns such as low mood, relationship strain, parenting stresses and burnout. Caroline holds a Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of direct counselling experience and over a decade of background work leading group programmes and supervising facilitators.
Her past roles include work with children and young people aged 11 to 16 and with adult mental health services. Sessions typically focus on what matters most to the individual. Caroline listens for patterns, helps identify practical next steps, and supports people to test changes between sessions.
She also draws on trauma-informed and relational perspectives where needed. People find Caroline a practical and steady presence when they face transitions, loss, or persistent worry. She invites prospective clients to reflect on their goals, and then to try straightforward, manageable ways of moving towards them.
What Caroline works with
How Caroline works
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Sessions & fees
How Caroline’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to create a warm, non-judgemental atmosphere where the client leads the pace and topics. It helps with feelings of low self-worth, confusion about life choices, and rebuilding trust in oneself.Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps someone clarify what they want to change and why. It is useful for moving through ambivalence, whether that relates to health, relationships or work decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Caroline will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan over time rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls let people see visual cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be quicker to arrange and work well when a camera is not wanted. Live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing reflections between scheduled sessions. These options support continuity of care, flexibility around work or caregiving commitments, and different ways for people to engage with therapy.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
