Karen Bland

Karen Bland, NCPS, offers a compassionate, person-focused approach to counselling. She aims to make conversations feel straightforward and safe. Karen listens and helps people map out practical steps when life feels overwhelming.

She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to keep the dialogue focused on each person’s lived experience. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable goals and Internal Family Systems ideas to look at how different parts of the self respond to stress and relationships. These methods are used together to address anxiety, stress, relationship strain, family problems and trauma and abuse.

Clients may be supported with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, feelings of emptiness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, life purpose and midlife shifts. Isolation and loneliness are also named as a focus area and may be explored in sessions.

Her practice involves tailoring conversations and a plan to each person’s needs. She aims to help people find small, practical changes that can make day-to-day life easier. The tone in sessions is respectful and sensitive, with attention to what matters most to the individual.

Karen has nine years of professional experience and holds NCPS. She works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete an online matching questionnaire and schedule a time to meet.

How Karen’s approaches can work in online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs a calm, non-judgemental space to sort out feelings and decide on next steps.

Solution-Focused Therapy looks for concrete, short-term goals and practical steps. It is useful when someone wants to change specific patterns or make small shifts that add up over time.

Internal Family Systems works with different parts of a person’s inner life to understand why they react in certain ways. This can help with relationship issues, attachment worries and feelings of abandonment or emptiness.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session arrangements and formats are not specified in the profile, so it is important to confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, save travel time and allow people to meet from wherever they are. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when needed or sessions without video if that suits someone better.