Carey Buchanan, BACP

Carey Buchanan is a BACP-registered counsellor with 17 years of therapeutic experience, offering practical and compassionate support to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and other life challenges. She works with individuals, couples and families, drawing on a range of established methods to help clients understand their thoughts, feelings and behaviours and develop more effective ways of coping.

Her practice includes work with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and parenting concerns, as well as chronic pain, caregiver stress and career-related issues. Carey has experience in both in-person and online clinical settings and has worked within CAMHS and UK social care as well as in private practice, providing therapy to young people and adults across a variety of circumstances.

Carey explains her professional standing through membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - a recognised UK body for counsellors and psychotherapists - and she keeps her clinical knowledge current through ongoing professional development. She adapts therapeutic approaches to match each client’s presenting needs and can offer focused programmes such as parenting support when required, creating a non-judgmental space where clients can explore change at their own pace.

Therapeutic approaches and accessible online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, while guiding them to take actions that reflect their values - it can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression and coping with long-term health conditions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they influence current bonds and intimacy; it is often helpful for relationship difficulties, abandonment feelings and family-of-origin issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing practical strategies to change behaviour and mood, which can support work on anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Carey collaborates with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences. She integrates techniques where helpful and adapts the work over time so the client remains central to decisions about care.

Online therapy with registered professionals offers flexible options - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - so people can fit sessions around work, family and other commitments. These formats make it easier to access consistent support from a qualified therapist while preserving the collaborative, goal-focused nature of the work.