Carol Saker, BACP

Carol Saker is a UK-licensed counsellor with four years of professional experience, offering support across a wide range of emotional and relational concerns. She has worked with people experiencing neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ matters, anxiety, depression, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and grief and loss, and creates a space where difficult thoughts and feelings can be explored without judgement.

After completing a degree in psychology, she chose to train in counselling, a path that reflects her interest in working directly with people rather than in clinical psychology roles. Early in her practice she volunteered as a counsellor at a school for young people aged 11 to 18, an experience that deepened her understanding of adolescent challenges and the needs of younger clients.

Her primary orientation is Person-Centred counselling, which means she focuses on helping people make decisions based on their own understanding of themselves while offering listening and empathic presence. In sessions she aims to sit alongside the feelings clients bring, helping them to make sense of their experience and encouraging the ability to bring their whole self to therapy.

Carol also works with couples and brings together several approaches to support relationships, including solution-focused work, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, transactional analysis, dialectical behaviour therapy techniques, and attachment theory. She is associated with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and draws on these methods to help individuals and couples identify goals and find practical ways forward.