Carmen Castillo , BACP

Carmen Castillo is an integrative counsellor who offers compassionate support for people navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, and major life transitions. She works with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and with a variety of sexual orientations and gender identities, guiding them through multicultural concerns as well as everyday struggles with self-esteem, sleep, anger, and career stress. Carmen invites clients into a gentle, non-judgmental space where exploration and collaboration are central, helping individuals draw on their own inner resources for repair and growth.

Carmen aims to build a nurturing therapeutic relationship that connects current difficulties to formative experiences and past attachments. She helps clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns, while encouraging practical self-care and self-compassion practices that support lasting change. Her approach values emotional connection as a path to clarity and transformation, and she attends to feelings, body, mind, and spirit in a holistic way.

As an integrative practitioner with 10 years of experience, Carmen tailors therapy to each person by drawing on person-centred methods, cognitive behavioural techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness practices among others. She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the main UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists, which reflects adherence to recognised professional standards. Carmen provides services in English and Spanish and works with international clients to support recovery and personal growth.