Karen Barnitt, BACP

Karen Barnitt offers a warm and professional counselling service that prioritises each person’s individual needs. She builds a comfortable environment where clients can talk openly and explore difficult emotions without judgement, drawing on extensive training and ongoing professional development to guide the work.

Karen practices in a client-centred way, encouraging people to lead the pace and direction of their therapy while providing steady support and practical tools. She is an accredited member of the BACP, the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom, and brings that professional framework to her practice.

Specialising in trauma-informed care, Karen recognises how past experiences can influence present wellbeing and adapts interventions to suit each person’s history and needs. She works with people facing anxiety, depression and general life challenges, and supports those carrying a specific trauma burden to develop resilience and coping strategies. Sessions are tailored to what will be most helpful in the moment, with the shared goal of improving emotional wellbeing and building healthier ways of coping.

Committed to a compassionate, nonjudgemental approach, Karen aims to create a collaborative relationship that helps clients move toward greater stability, understanding and recovery.

Therapeutic approaches for online therapy

Karen uses client-centred therapy to place the client’s experience at the heart of the work, offering empathic listening and support while clients set the pace and focus. This approach helps people who need to feel heard and respected as they explore personal challenges and make changes.

She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to address the specific effects of past traumatic experiences, using techniques designed to reduce distress and help clients build coping strategies tailored to their recovery. Where helpful, narrative therapy is used to examine the stories people tell about themselves and to reframe those narratives in ways that support empowerment and growth.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Karen works collaboratively with each client to identify methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts the work over time as circumstances and priorities change.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, making it easier to attend sessions around work, family and other commitments. These options support continued access to therapy for people who need convenience or who prefer different ways of communicating, while allowing registered professionals and therapists to maintain consistent, goal-focused support.