Carmen Castillo, BACP

Carmen Castillo is a counsellor who helps people facing jealousy, anxiety and major life changes. She works with clients who feel stuck by grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, or struggles with self-esteem. Carmen aims to make the first steps feel manageable and clear. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space and invites people to work together on their priorities. Sessions focus on connecting current difficulties to formative experiences and attachment patterns. That helps people see how old habits still shape everyday reactions. Carmen uses practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy and client-centred listening to match what each person needs. The work also includes exploring feelings in the body and building simple routines for self-care. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual. Carmen encourages self-compassion while supporting people to try small, concrete steps that lead to clearer choices. She believes that a nurturing therapeutic relationship helps people access their own resources for repair. Carmen has around 10 years of experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She sees clients from diverse cultural and sexual orientation backgrounds and offers sessions in English and Spanish. International clients are accepted, and practical arrangements are discussed when people get in touch.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choose actions that reflect personal values; it can help with anxiety, rumination and relationship worries. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationships to understand current patterns of closeness and trust, which is useful for jealousy and intimacy issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce distress and change behaviour.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try methods together to see what fits. This is a collaborative process that can shift over time as needs change.

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 week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people access support from another location or work around different schedules, while keeping the focus on practical tools and emotional understanding.