Carmen Roberts, BACP

Carmen Roberts helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, trauma and grief. She writes plainly and listens closely to help people find clearer ways to cope. Carmen works with adults who want practical change and steadier relationships.

Carmen has a degree in Therapeutic Counselling from the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, CPCAB. She also holds a Diploma in Criminal Psychology and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background includes work at an NHS eating disorders unit and time supporting wellbeing in an employment setting.

Her style is direct but warm. She uses ideas about early attachments and past experiences to understand how people relate now. She also draws on solution-focused steps to build small, achievable changes week by week.

In sessions Carmen helps people untangle patterns such as codependency, control issues, communication problems and abandonment fears. She supports those dealing with eating and substance issues, domestic violence, divorce and family tensions alongside grief and trauma.

Outside private practice she volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Care and has worked with Gloucestershire Constabulary. Her mix of psychodynamic thinking and practical goal-setting aims to help people regain control and move forward at their own pace.

How Carmen uses attachment, psychodynamic and solution-focused ideas online

Carmen works with Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment worries or repeating relationship problems.

She also uses Psychodynamic Therapy to make sense of recurring feelings and behaviours that come from past experiences. That can be useful for trauma, grief and deeper patterns that affect daily life.

Solution-Focused Therapy features short-term, practical steps to build change quickly. It helps people set small goals, notice what improves and keep moving forward week by week.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Carmen will discuss options with each person and agree a plan based on their needs, goals and preferences. The choice of methods evolves as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can offer remote sessions that focus on the same therapeutic tasks as face-to-face work, helping people apply new strategies in everyday life.