Carey-Sue Ham, BACP

Carey-Sue Ham is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. She works from the view that people are the experts in their own lives and brings a respectful, collaborative attitude to sessions. Carey-Sue aims to support clients who are ready to take the first steps towards feeling more fulfilled and less overwhelmed.

Her work often focuses on common and painful concerns such as trauma and abuse, addiction, anxiety and depression. She also helps people facing relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain and career-related stress. Additional areas she pays attention to include ageing and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and ADHD.

Carey-Sue uses a range of approaches to suit different needs. She draws on client-centred ideas to keep the person’s priorities central. Emotionally-focused methods help when people want to understand and shift patterns in close relationships. Mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas are brought in where helpful to notice patterns and build new ways of responding.

Sessions are practical and conversational. She listens for strengths and small changes that can make a difference. The aim is to find ways forward that fit each person’s life and values.

Carey-Sue is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP. She offers support in English and is able to work with people based outside the UK as well as within it.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to her availability.

How Carey-Sue uses therapeutic approaches online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist creates space for the client to explain their story and priorities, and sessions often centre on identifying strengths and small next steps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change how they respond to strong feelings. This can help with intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns and repeated relationship conflicts. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce stress and ease anxious or depressive thinking, often through short exercises and everyday practices.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carey-Sue will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until they find what fits. That process is collaborative and adjusts as needs change.

The therapist's biography did not list specific online session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow quieter surroundings, and remove travel time. They also let people use shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule or choose longer sessions when more time is needed.