About Carole
Carole Ward is a psychotherapist with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society accreditation and 17 years of experience. She offers support to people facing a wide range of life difficulties, including stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and long-term health challenges. Carole approaches therapy as a vocation rather than a job.
She works from the view that each person is the expert in their own life and already has strengths to draw on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to help people notice those strengths and use them to make lasting change. Her background includes work in supported mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices, learning disability services, charities and personal companies. This variety has shaped a practical style that responds to different kinds of distress and life circumstances.
Carole uses several clinical approaches to guide her work, including attachment-based methods, client-centred practice, EMDR for trauma-related work, mindfulness and motivational interviewing. She draws on the element that best fits a person’s concern and situation. She has supported people with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family concerns, addiction, bipolar and mood difficulties, ADHD, career strain and compassion fatigue.
She also works with people from LGBT communities. Carole welcomes international clients and offers therapy across the United Kingdom and beyond. To begin, a person follows the Start Therapy process, completes a brief matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
Payment uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Carole works with
Everything Carole lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Carole is listed here; the rest shows what else Carole works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carole lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Carole's approaches fit into online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in how people connect with others. It looks at past and present relationships to help people understand why they repeat certain responses and to develop different ways of relating. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s lead to build clarity, confidence and practical next steps.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Carole will discuss different methods and work with the person to decide what seems most useful for their goals. That means trying things out, checking how they feel, and adapting the plan as progress is made.
Practical benefits of online work often include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online sessions can make it easier to have a shorter check-in when needed or to join when work or caring duties would otherwise get in the way. The biography does not list specific session formats here, so please confirm current session options before booking to ensure they meet your needs.
Questions people ask about Carole
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
Carole works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also supports people with relationship strain, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD and issues linked to serious illness.
What is the therapist's style in sessions?
Her style is practical and person-centred, emphasising collaboration. She helps people spot strengths and try new ways of coping that fit their life.
What experience does the therapist bring?
She has 17 years’ experience working in settings such as supported mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices and charities. That variety informs a flexible, practical approach.
What credentials and location are listed?
Carole is accredited with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with this therapist?
International clients are accepted and may work with her, subject to scheduling and any regional considerations discussed during booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and the therapist’s availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a course of therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, then scheduling sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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