Carey Buchanan, BACP

Carey Buchanan is a BACP-registered counsellor with 17 years of experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. She works with individuals, couples and young people, drawing on a breadth of practice in both face-to-face and online settings and experience within UK social care and child and adolescent mental health services. Her registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) indicates a commitment to recognised professional standards and ongoing development.

Carey offers a compassionate, non-judgmental space where clients can explore difficulties in relationships, parenting, work and personal wellbeing. She has worked with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue and sleep problems, alongside concerns about self-esteem, career changes and family dynamics. She is also comfortable addressing attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and boundary challenges, and caregiving stress.

Clinically, Carey integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centred methods, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to match interventions to each person’s needs. She can adapt techniques to suit differing ages and relationship contexts and offers parenting programmes when appropriate. Carey keeps her professional knowledge current and collaborates with clients to help them understand their thoughts, feelings and behaviours and to work toward meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying personal values and taking committed action toward a more meaningful life. It can be helpful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections; it supports work on intimacy, abandonment concerns and family dynamics by building awareness of relational patterns and new ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a warm, non-judgmental therapeutic relationship in which the therapist offers empathy and genuine understanding to help the client find their own solutions and build self-esteem.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Carey collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. She draws on different techniques and tailors sessions so that therapy aligns with what a client hopes to achieve, making choices together as treatment progresses.

Online therapy with Carey is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy lives, parenting responsibilities and varying mobility. These options make it easier to attend regularly, maintain continuity of care, and access support from the comfort of home while working with a registered professional.