Carmen Castillo

Carmen Castillo is an Integrative Counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 10 years' experience supporting people through difficult issues and life changes. She works in a gentle, supportive and non-judgmental way, inviting clients to collaborate on their individual needs while drawing on their own inner resources for healing.

She offers help for anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, coping with major life transitions, anger and sleeping difficulties. Her approach seeks to connect current struggles with formative experiences and past relationships, helping clients to identify and change unhelpful behavioural and thinking patterns and to cultivate self-care and self-compassion.

Carmen works holistically, taking feelings, body, mind and the soul into account. She tailors different therapeutic methods to each person, drawing on Person-Centred work, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness, among other approaches. Her clients come from a range of cultural backgrounds and include people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. She also provides therapy in English and Spanish and practices as a female therapist.

Carmen values nature as a source of calm, culture as a way to broaden understanding, and the power people have to access their own resilience through a nurturing therapeutic relationship. She is a fully qualified and registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.