Karen Murdock, BACP, NCPS

Karen Murdock is a qualified integrative counsellor who blends evidence-based methods with attentive, empathic care to meet each person's unique needs. She combines psychodynamic, person-centred, and cognitive-behavioural approaches to create a bespoke plan that reflects a client's goals, life perspective, and pace of change. Her work focuses on building self-regulation, improving communication, and re-establishing trust so clients can address both immediate concerns and longer-standing patterns.

Karen supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma, sleep problems, low self-esteem, grief, anger, and major life transitions. She also has a strong understanding of chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and psychosomatic illnesses, and recognises the complex personal, professional, and family impacts these conditions can bring. Her practice also extends to areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, and codependency.

Holding BACP and NCPS registrations, which indicate professional accreditation in counselling and psychotherapy, Karen works with a limited number of clients to ensure focused, consistent care. Clients often tell her they value her ability to listen without agenda and to support meaningful, sustainable shifts. Her practice aims to offer a calm, non-judgemental space where insight, depth, and practical strategy come together to help people create a more purposeful and empowered life.