Karen Boram, BACP

Karen Boram is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP credentialing and has five years of professional experience. Karen aims to make the first contact straightforward and calming for people who feel nervous about therapy.

She focuses on common difficulties such as stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low mood and grief. She also works with concerns around intimacy, self-esteem, relationship questions and issues affecting LGBT people. Additional focus areas include personality-related difficulties, codependency, infidelity, non-monogamous relationship challenges, seasonal mood changes and self-harm.

Karen begins by listening closely to each person’s story. She offers a non-judgemental space and then adapts a counselling plan to the person’s specific needs. The first session is described as an opportunity to learn what counselling feels like and to start building a practical way forward.

Her approach emphasises clear thinking and slow, steady progress. Karen helps people reduce confusion so they can make decisions that feel right. Those decisions then become the basis for changes in behaviour and everyday routines.

People who prefer a calm, paced conversation tend to find her style accessible. She aims to support clients through practical steps and steady emotional support rather than quick fixes.

Approaches that guide online work

Karen describes her practice as integrative and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions. One helpful approach focuses on building a clear plan with practical steps to reduce confusion and support decision-making; this suits people facing life changes, low mood or anxiety. Another common strand concentrates on trauma-informed listening and pacing, which helps people who have experienced abuse or other painful events to tell their story in a way that feels manageable.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then decide together which techniques to apply. This collaborative process aims to match methods to what a person needs and how they prefer to engage, rather than imposing a single model.

Practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and reducing travel time. Online work can also make it easier to keep appointments during life transitions or when routines are tight. Session formats are not specified in the biography, so check the current options before booking to confirm how sessions are held.