Counsellor profile
Karen Crooks, BACP
BACP counsellor - family and parenting concerns
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- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
About Karen
Karen Crooks is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with adults on everyday pressures at home and personal struggles. Common concerns she helps people with include stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and coping with life changes.
Her approach treats the person as the expert in their own story. Sessions focus on practical steps and short-term strategies as well as exploring how past events affect current patterns. She uses mindfulness to help calm overwhelming thinking and trauma-focused methods when past harm still affects day-to-day life.
Motivational interviewing is used to support difficult decisions and build momentum for change. Solution-focused techniques help identify small, concrete steps that make a difference between sessions. These methods are chosen to match what the person wants to work on and how they prefer to engage.
Karen has particular experience around adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and caring-related stress. She also supports people dealing with body image, eating and sleeping difficulties, chronic illness or cancer related challenges, and communication or commitment problems.
Her style is straightforward and practical. Sessions aim to make problems more manageable and to increase the day-to-day skills people can use at home. To start, people select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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Approaches used in online sessions
Karen uses mindfulness therapy to help slow racing thoughts and build simple daily practices for stress and anxiety. Mindfulness exercises are short and aimed at helping people notice and respond differently to strong feelings.She also uses motivational interviewing to support change that feels difficult. This method helps clarify personal reasons for change, resolve mixed feelings, and plan small steps forward.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and review progress as they go.
Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can offer ways of working that fit around work, caring responsibilities or other commitments.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addictions, relationships, parenting and related family concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, using mindfulness, motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to find concrete steps forward.
How much experience does she have?
She has three years of professional experience working as a counsellor in the United Kingdom.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She accepts international clients.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
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