Carmen Roberts, BACP

Carmen Roberts helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, body image and eating concerns, codependency, communication and control problems, and the fallout from separation and domestic violence. Carmen uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people take back control of their lives.

Carmen trained in Therapeutic Counselling and holds a degree awarded by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and brings seven years of practice experience to her work. Her background includes roles in bereavement volunteering, an NHS eating disorders unit, police services and workplace well-being management.

In sessions she combines ideas from attachment-based work, psychodynamic thinking and solution-focused practice. That means she pays attention to early relationship patterns, to how past experience shapes current feelings, and to practical steps you can try between sessions. Conversations are collaborative and geared to the concerns you bring.

People can expect clear, direct discussion about patterns and choices. Carmen helps identify small, manageable changes that can reduce distress and improve relationships. She also offers support around grief and loss using experience from voluntary bereavement work.

Sessions are offered in English and take place online via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Carmen works from the United Kingdom and follows professional standards set out by the BACP.

How Carmen's approaches work online

Carmen draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and relationship patterns. This approach can help when fears of abandonment, trust or repeated relationship problems are causing distress.

She also uses psychodynamic-informed thinking to help identify recurring themes that come from past experience. This can make sense of entrenched patterns such as control issues or persistent emptiness and offer routes to change.

Solution-focused work is used to create short-term goals and practical steps. That method helps people try small experiments between sessions and track what makes a real difference in day-to-day life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Carmen will discuss options with each person and agree a plan based on their needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and can adjust over time as priorities change.

Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options help people access therapy around work, family or other commitments.