Carmen Ramos Bolivar, BACP

Carmen Ramos Bolivar is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with six years of experience. She helps people with stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and low motivation. Carmen works in both English and Spanish.

She starts by listening to the story a person brings and identifying the practical problems to address. Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and habits, testing small changes, and building simple routines that can improve day-to-day functioning. Carmen uses clear, structured methods rather than abstract theory.

Carmen commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map thinking patterns linked to mood and behaviour. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centred conversation to explore values and what matters to each person. Mindfulness practices are introduced when they help with stress, sleep or concentration.

In a typical session she asks concrete questions, suggests short experiments between meetings, and reviews progress the next time. She helps people break big problems into smaller steps and track what works. The approach aims to make change manageable and measurable.

People who come to Carmen bring a mix of concerns: parenting strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, anger, or challenges after separation. She also supports work around attachment, abandonment, chronic illness, codependency, communication troubles, guilt, and forgiveness. Practical tools and steady review of progress are central to her work.

How Carmen uses CBT, ACT and client-centred work online