Karen Kendall, NCPS

Karen Kendall is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She helps people who are finding life stressful, struggling with anxiety, or coping with depression and mood swings. Karen also supports those dealing with addictions and people who have difficulties with concentration and focus such as ADHD-related challenges.

She approaches work believing each person knows their own story best. Karen focuses on people’s strengths and helps them build on those strengths to manage problems. She aims to make the first steps feel achievable and straightforward rather than overwhelming.

In sessions she listens for the patterns that are getting in the way. She talks things through with clients and helps them try practical ways to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Conversations cover feelings, relationships, routines, and how to tackle unhelpful habits.

Karen pays attention to issues around attachment, communication difficulties, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation. She also supports people working through caregiving strain, questions about life purpose, and women’s issues.

Her style is collaborative and grounded. She encourages realistic goals and small changes that fit into everyday life. People meet to explore options and decide on steps that feel right for them.

How evidence-based techniques can work online

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical steps and skills people can use day to day. One common approach helps people identify patterns in thinking and behaviour that maintain anxiety and low mood, then tries alternative ways of responding to reduce distress and improve coping. Another approach concentrates on building routines, focus strategies and problem-solving skills to support concentration, ADHD-related struggles and recovery from addictive behaviours.

Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and help decide which techniques best match a person’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and may change as progress is made.

The original biography does not list supported session formats, so please confirm current online options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time and keep regular meetings when life is hectic. Some formats can allow shorter check-ins when needed or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited, which can help people maintain consistency with their therapy plan.