Karen Martin
Practical, compassionate support for adults
About Karen
Karen Martin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping adults find steadier ground. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy concerns and sleep problems. She aims to help clients regain balance and a clearer sense of direction.
With four years of professional experience, Karen uses straightforward, talk-based work alongside recognised therapeutic methods. She encourages increased self-awareness and practical emotion regulation.
Background and approach
Sessions are warm and interactive, with an emphasis on respect and compassion. Her approach begins by exploring the story that brought someone to therapy. She helps people spot beliefs or patterns that no longer serve them and then experiments with different ways of responding.
The goal is to build skills and choices that fit each person’s life. Karen draws on methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking and dialectical behaviour strategies. These are applied in everyday language and practical exercises rather than technical jargon.
Therapy is paced to what each person needs, and progress is reviewed as work continues. Karen supports clients aiming for more stability, better emotional regulation, and clearer goals for the future. She welcomes people who want a collaborative and down-to-earth way of working.
What Karen works with
How Karen works
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Sessions & fees
Approach-led online therapy that fits your life
Karen uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in a straightforward and practical way. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values and take small committed steps toward what matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress and situations where motivation or direction feels unclear. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how close relationships shape feelings and reactions, and it helps people develop steadier ways of relating and coping with loss or trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Karen discusses goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. She tailors methods in collaboration with each person so the plan feels manageable and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer typing to talking or who want brief, frequent contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, while still applying the same therapeutic methods.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
