Karen Murdock, BACP, NCPS

Karen Murdock is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship strain. She also supports those facing trauma or abuse, sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, anger and career or life changes. Karen combines practical tools with close listening to help people feel steadier and clearer about their next steps.

Karen trained as an integrative counsellor and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She draws on person-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural ideas to shape sessions around each person’s needs. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, building emotional regulation and improving communication.

Her practice includes supporting people with long-term health conditions, chronic pain and caring responsibilities. She aims to recognise the impact these concerns have on daily life, work and family roles, and to help clients find workable coping strategies.

Karen describes her style as calm and non-judgemental, with attention to both insight and practical change. She works with a small caseload to keep continuity of care and close attention to each person’s goals.

To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and can book according to the therapist’s scheduling. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and costs vary with location and the therapist’s availability.

How Karen's approaches fit with online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and priorities. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters to the client and supporting their choices. This approach helps when someone needs validation and clearer self-direction.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues and low mood.

Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring themes in relationships and past experiences that affect current life. It helps people understand deeper patterns and how they influence emotions and behaviour.

Finding the right approach is usually a joint process. The therapist will work together with the client to match methods to goals, preferences and what comes up in early sessions. That may mean using more practical CBT techniques at times and deeper, reflective psychodynamic work at others.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and keep continuity of care when travel is difficult. It can be helpful for regular check-ins, structured CBT tasks or reflective conversations without changing where someone lives. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking.