Caroline Laing, BACP

Caroline Laing is a person-centred counsellor who supports people working through anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, stress and burnout, and moments when life feels overwhelming or stalled. She helps clients make sense of emotions and regain confidence to move forward by combining a warm, collaborative approach with practical, evidence-informed techniques.

Her therapeutic style is grounded in person-centred practice while integrating trauma-informed, relational, and cognitive-behavioural methods. She also draws on motivational and solution-focused strategies to help people identify goals, build coping skills, and take manageable steps toward change. Caroline has worked in both one-to-one and group settings, bringing extensive experience facilitating change programmes and supervising group work facilitators.

Her formal training includes a Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling - a vocational qualification in counselling practice - alongside specialist placements and training such as work with children and young people aged 11 to 16 through Place2Be and adult-focused training with Mind. She has completed continuing professional development in areas including safeguarding children and adults, wild therapy, relational trauma, suicide and self-harm work, and approaches to working with terminal ambivalence and outdoor therapy.

Caroline is a registered member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and maintains professional insurance. She applies client-centred therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to support people across a wide range of concerns, including attachment and relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, career and life transitions, and compassion fatigue.