Carol Saker , BACP

Carol Saker is a UK-licensed counsellor with four years of professional experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. She works with issues including neurodiversity, LGBT concerns, anxiety, depression, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and many other areas related to relationships, parenting, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and coping with life changes. Carol aims to create an open, nonjudgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and explored, recognising that starting therapy often requires courage and can feel daunting.

Her journey into counselling began after completing a degree in psychology, when she chose to train in counselling rather than pursue clinical psychology. Early volunteer work as a school counsellor for young people aged 11 to 18 informed her understanding of adolescent experience and the pressures young people face.

Carol’s core practice is person-centred counselling - an approach that emphasises listening, empathy, and giving clients the space to make sense of their own feelings so they can make decisions based on their own understanding of themselves. In her couples work she integrates solution-focused ideas, emotionally-focused methods, transactional analysis, dialectical behaviour strategies, and attachment theory to help partners deepen understanding of themselves and each other and to work towards shared goals. She holds the BACP credential - a recognition from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists.