Carole Ward, NCPS
17 years in practice
Carole Ward is a psychotherapist who uses an accessible, person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety and trauma.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS20-00337 · expires February 2027
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Carole
Carole Ward is a psychotherapist who uses an accessible, person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety and trauma. She holds NCPS credentials and brings 17 years of experience working across a range of settings in the United Kingdom and beyond. Carole offers online video, phone, chat and text sessions to fit different needs and schedules.
She believes people are the experts in their own lives and builds on each person's strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth, focusing on what will make life feel better day to day. Carole works with concerns including depression, bipolar difficulties, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting stress. Her background includes supporting people in supported mental health wards, refuges, prisons, hospices, learning disability services and charities.
That variety has given her experience with trauma, suicide prevention, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Much of her work also covers attachment and communication problems, codependency and body image difficulties. Carole draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person.
She uses attachment-based and client-centred methods to build trust, mindfulness to develop present-moment coping, motivational interviewing for change, and EMDR for people who want trauma-focused work. She tailors sessions to each person's goals and preferences. People who start therapy with Carole take a brief matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that work for them.
Fees vary with location and sessions operate via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Carole accepts international clients and works in English.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Carole lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carole names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and patterns that formed early in life; online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to spot those patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy places the person at the centre of each session, with the counsellor listening, reflecting and helping the client find their own solutions to stress or low mood. EMDR offers a trauma-focused option that uses guided processing to reduce the emotional intensity of past events for people who want that kind of work.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Carole will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to use based on their goals, history and preferences. That means sessions can shift over time - more mindfulness and motivation work early on, with trauma processing considered later if needed.
Online therapy with Carole is available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the focus on forward progress.
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Questions people ask
What issues does she help with?
Carole helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, bipolar mood concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain and career stress.
What style of therapy can I expect?
She blends client-centred listening with attachment-based work and mindfulness exercises. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help making changes, and EMDR is offered for trauma-focused processing.
How long has she been practising?
Carole has 17 years of professional experience working in a range of settings across the UK and abroad, including hospitals, refuges, prisons and charities.
Where is the therapist based and what are her credentials?
She practices from the United Kingdom and is accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, shown as NCPS.
Can I work with her from another country?
Yes, she accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are sessions paid for?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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