Carey Buchanan

Carey Buchanan is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has 17 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain and loss. Carey takes a calm, straightforward approach that helps people notice patterns and try practical changes.

Her work draws on a mix of therapies so sessions can be shaped to what each person needs. Carey uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at thoughts, feelings and actions. She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas to explore how past relationships affect present ones.

Carey has worked across NHS child and adolescent mental health services and in UK social care, alongside private practice. That background informs her practical focus on parenting, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin issues. She has supported people facing trauma, grief, chronic illness and burnout during a long clinical career.

In sessions she helps people name what is worrying them and try steps that fit everyday life. She works with issues such as intimacy, abandonment, codependency, communication problems and body image. Carey also offers guidance around career strain, sleeping problems and coping with big life changes.

Sessions are delivered in English and are based in the United Kingdom. Carey keeps her professional learning up to date and adapts therapeutic tools to suit individual goals and preferences.

How Carey uses therapy online and what to expect

Carey draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and it focuses on choosing actions that match personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current relationships and helps people build different ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is something Carey treats as a joint process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best. The plan is adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and useful for everyday life.

If you want to try online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow steady continuity when life is changeable. It also makes shorter check-ins and paced work possible when needed. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists can use these ways of working to help people make practical changes and manage difficult feelings.