Carol Bendinelli, BACP

Carol Bendinelli is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and big life changes. She offers a calm, welcoming way of working so clients can talk through painful feelings at their own pace. Carol aims to help people make practical changes that improve daily life and relationships.

She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include looking at early attachment patterns, using client-centred listening, and applying practical cognitive techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts. She also draws on mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice patterns and rewrite difficult parts of their story.

Carol trained after working in health, education and social care. That background means she is used to supporting people with long-term health issues, neurodiversity, and complex life situations. She brings four years of professional counselling experience to her practice.

People come to Carol for many concerns. These include low mood, relationship and family problems, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, anger and work-related stress. She also supports those dealing with fertility, miscarriage, ageing and caregiver stress.

Her style is warm and non-judgemental. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and small steps to get there. Carol is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works from the United Kingdom.

Ways of working online with therapeutic approaches

Carol often combines attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions, and can help with relationship and intimacy concerns. Client-centred work means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows what matters to the person in front of them. Cognitive behavioural techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will ask about goals, what has helped before, and practical needs. Then she will suggest ideas and adapt them in collaboration with the client so the plan fits individual preferences and aims.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in between commitments. It can also make it simpler to plan regular work on sleep, stress or coping with life changes. Registered or accredited professionals, including those using these approaches, can help clients apply tools and skills between sessions so progress continues outside the meeting time.