Counsellor profile
Karina Kaminski, NCPS
Counsellor - Family and parenting concerns
Continue with KarinaAbout
- Client-centred listening
- Cognitive-behavioural tools
- Mindfulness practice
About Karina
Karina Kaminski is a counsellor registered with NCPS and has three years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain and anger. She also addresses compassion fatigue and helps people coping with life changes.
Karina uses practical talking therapies to help people understand what is causing their distress and to build clearer ways of coping. She draws on client-centred listening alongside cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness tools to support changes in thought patterns and daily habits. Sessions move at a steady pace and focus on concrete steps as well as emotional understanding.
Many people come with problems linked to family life, adoption or foster care, caregiver stress, or domestic violence. Karina also works with issues such as attachment concerns, body image, guilt and shame, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress. She will talk through immediate priorities and longer-term aims so sessions feel purposeful.
Her approach is interactive and non-judgemental. Karina pays attention to what each person wants to achieve and adjusts the focus of sessions accordingly. She avoids labels and aims to listen carefully before suggesting practical exercises.
For people who prefer structure, she offers goal-focused work and short practical exercises. For others, time is given to process feelings and make sense of difficult experiences. To begin, readers are asked to use the online therapy options and complete the short matching questionnaire before booking a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centred therapy emphasises listening and understanding the person as they describe their difficulties. Online sessions can reproduce that careful listening, allowing the counsellor to reflect back concerns and priorities and to set collaborative goals.Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying practical alternative behaviours. Online sessions can include short behavioural experiments, thought records and skill practice between meetings to address anxiety, panic, low mood and relationship patterns.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. These techniques can be practised in short daily exercises agreed during sessions and reviewed together online.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as sessions progress, so the work stays relevant to everyday life.
The original biography does not list which exact session formats are offered. Before booking, confirm the current online session options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around family schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make practising techniques between sessions more convenient.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
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What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, self-esteem, depression, relationship strain, anger, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, body image, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centred and interactive, combining listening with practical exercises. She uses cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness techniques alongside a humanistic approach.
How much experience does she have?
She has three years of professional experience working with individuals, couples and young people. That experience covers a wide range of emotional and relationship concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom.
Does she run sessions in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How is cost handled?
Fees vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to try therapy with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.