Carey Buchanan , BACP

Carey Buchanan is a United Kingdom based counsellor with 17 years of clinical experience who holds accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the main professional body for counselling in the UK. She works with people facing a wide range of challenges including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, compassion fatigue, and career or life transitions.

Drawing on a broad set of evidence-informed approaches, Carey integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to tailor support to each person’s needs. Her practice emphasizes helping clients explore thoughts, emotions, and behavioural patterns while developing practical skills to manage everyday distress and build more satisfying relationships.

Carey has worked with individuals, couples, and children across diverse presenting issues and adapts therapeutic tools to suit different ages and family circumstances. Her style is compassionate, non-judgmental, and collaborative, focused on understanding each person’s story and co-creating realistic steps forward. She maintains ongoing professional development to keep clinical skills and theoretical knowledge up to date, and offers both face-to-face and online sessions including video calls, phone, live chat, and messaging.

Evidence-informed approaches for online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT helps people clarify personal values and learn practical ways to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking meaningful action; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions).

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships that originate in early caregiving experiences and helps clients understand how attachment styles shape current relationships, communication, and intimacy. It can support work with abandonment, attachment issues, and family dynamics.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers structured techniques to identify unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and replace them with more adaptive strategies, which can be effective for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.

Finding the most suitable approach is part of the therapeutic work. Carey Buchanan collaborates with each person to explore goals, preferences, and needs, and will adapt methods from these approaches to create a tailored plan that feels right for the individual. This collaborative process draws on best practices used by licensed professionals and aims to help clients make steady progress.

Online therapy with Carey is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit therapy around daily life. These options make it easier to access timely support from home or work, reduce travel time, and allow continuity of care when in-person sessions are not possible.