Counsellor profile
Carole Ward, NCPS
United Kingdom
Psychotherapist - Anger and Trauma
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- CredentialsNCPS
- RegistrationNCPS, United Kingdom / NCS20-00337
- Experience17 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- Attachment work
- EMDR for trauma
- Mindfulness skills
About Carole
Carole Ward is a National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) accredited and registered psychotherapist with 17 years of professional experience. She works with adults on problems such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions and anger. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Carole combines practical conversation with established therapeutic methods. She uses client-centred work to help people speak through what matters to them. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relationship patterns and how past bonds can shape current reactions.
Her background includes work in secure mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices, learning disability services and charities. That range means she has supported people with serious illness, suicide prevention and crisis work as well as longer term psychotherapy.
She also draws on EMDR for trauma-related concerns and on mindfulness techniques to help with stress and anxiety. Motivational interviewing is used where people want to change behaviours such as addictive patterns or to find new coping strategies.
Carole’s tone in sessions is direct and practical. She aims to help people recognise strengths they already have and to use those strengths to address recurring problems. To start a series of sessions, users follow the site steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange an initial appointment.
How sessions work
Approaches used in online sessions
Carole commonly uses attachment-based work and client-centred therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present reactions and helps people understand recurring emotional responses. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own perspective, giving space to talk and to make sense of what they are experiencing. She also uses EMDR for trauma-related concerns. EMDR involves guided eye movements or similar bilateral stimulation alongside talking about memories, and it is often used when past events continue to cause distress in day-to-day life. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carole will discuss goals and preferences and help decide which methods to try first. That collaborative decision aims to match a practical method to the issues someone brings, whether that is anger at work, long-standing trauma, or coping with stress. Confirm current session options before booking, as the original biography lists online and telephone work as well as in person sessions across the UK and beyond. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings around work or caring responsibilities, offer shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time while keeping continuity of care.Areas of focus
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Experience
17+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, anger and related concerns such as grief, self esteem and relationship problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style combines client-centred conversation with attachment-based thinking and practical techniques like mindfulness and motivational interviewing.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional experience across services such as mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices and charities.
What are her credentials and where does she practise?
She is accredited and registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and practises from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The biography mentions online and telephone sessions and in person work across the UK and beyond; confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.