Carey Buchanan, BACP

Carey Buchanan is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with 17 years' experience. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues and codependency among other difficulties.

Carey uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people notice how their patterns affect daily life. She listens for unhelpful cycles such as people-pleasing, trouble saying no, or losing oneself in relationships. Sessions look at emotions, behaviour and what matters to each person rather than relying on jargon.

Her background includes practice in the United Kingdom across NHS settings and private practice. That work has included helping people manage compassion fatigue, parenting strain, chronic illness and caregiving stress. Carey also has experience with family of origin issues, attachment concerns and separation and divorce challenges.

She draws on a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy. Carey adapts these methods to suit the presenting problem and the person in front of her, using skills work, values clarification and emotion-focused discussion.

People who come to Carey typically want clearer boundaries, steadier mood regulation and more confidence in relationships. She asks about the practical context of problems and helps build straightforward tools to manage them. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.

How Carey uses therapeutic approaches in online work