Carole Diane Carter, GMBPsS. (Reading)
About the Therapist
Hi there, I'm Carole and I use they/them pronouns. I am an integrative coaching psychologist and I'd like to welcome you to my Pink Therapy Directory listing.
I work with clients from all walks of life who are struggling with strong emotions and difficult situations. These include:
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Depression
- Fear
- Stress
- Overwhelm
- Emotional numbness
- Jealousy
- Suicidal thoughts and feelings
- Difficulty dealing with people’s reactions to an aspect of their identity
- Conflict with others
- Issues with someone’s reaction to how they structure their relationships
- Not knowing who they are as a person
- Having a coping mechanism, like self harm, that they want to stop but need help in doing so
- And having difficulty in maintaining positive, healthy habits.
I believe that a lot of the patterns we find ourselves in can be explained and understood by what happened in the past as well as through the natural way our nervous systems function. I also believe that the real power of change lies in the present.
Using the forward-focus of coaching combined with evidence-based psychological models, theories and tools, my clients make genuine, positive and lasting changes. I am developing my competence in working anti-oppressively so that I am best able to hold space for the full diversity of human experience. My approach is personalised and adapted to the people I’m working with and I encourage them to bring their whole person to our sessions. I want to celebrate your wins with you as well as supporting you through the lows.
Coaching focuses in on: where you are now, where you want to be and how you can get there. Within this it is able to examine and explore the impact of wider social issues on you. Sometimes the difficult feelings you’re experiencing are natural and healthy reactions to existing in a world that denies, denigrates, discriminates and victimises you as a member of a non-dominant group. If this is the case for you, learning better ways to manage your feelings is valid but it’s not enough as you’re likely to encounter these things over and over again. Coaching allows you to explore how you want to handle, engage with or disengage from things like this.
I love focusing on working with people from the LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, polyamorous, ethically non-monogamous (ENM) / consensually non-monogamous (CNM) and BDSM / kink communities. These communities are still a mystery to many, ignored by plenty and expected to just fit into and blend into the same structures and services provided for the straight, cisgender, monogamous and vanilla majority. A lot of the time people from these communities don’t need “special” or “different” support but they do need the services they are accessing to be inclusive and aware of relevant issues. That's where people like me come in. Being a part of most of these communities myself helps me to be able to provide a safe, supportive and accepting service to you.
- Ace | Asexual
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Kink - BDSM
I am a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society after obtaining a bachelors degree in Psychology and a masters of research in Research Methods in Psychology. I specialised with human memory. Within the BPS, I am a member of the Division of Coaching Psychology, the Psychology of Sexualities Section, and the Transpersonal Psychology Section. Member number: 563076 British Psychological Society website I am a qualified NLP Coach, Hypnosis Practitioner and Time Line TherapyTM Practitioner. These were all obtained through training with Unleash Your Potential with accreditation from the ABNLP. Unleash Your Potential website ABNLP website
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I have experience working with:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Phobias
- Trauma
- ADHD
- Chronic Illness
- Self Harm
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Relationship Issues
- Conflict
- Self harm
- Coming out
- Dealing with bigotry
- Chronic Illness
- Family estrangement
- Meditation & Mindfulness
- Personal development
- Polyamory and Ethical non-monogamy (ENM)
- Kink/BDSM
I am a coaching psychologist who uses a relational approach and is heavily influenced by positive psychology. In real terms this means that I appreciate the importance of people's strengths, values and feelings like happiness, satisfaction and joy. I may work with clients on bringing out more of their strengths if there's a tendency to dismiss or overlook them as well as encouraging clients in utilising their strengths when working on difficulties. The relationship with my clients is key to the process. I help people not just overcome their obstacles but also empower them in making their life more fulfilling, satisfying and happy.
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Focusing-oriented therapy
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Other
- Person-Centred
- Relational
- Transactional Analysis
- Transpersonal
- Walk and talk therapy
- Ace | Asexual
- BDSM | Kink
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Neurodivergent
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Trans
- One to one
- Fully wheelchair-adapted
- Adults
- Young adults (16-24)
- Young people (<16)
- Online
- In Person
I work with clients both online and in person (I use a space in Maidenhead). Online sessions are charged at £69 per hour and in person sessions are charged at £84 per hour.
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