Carina Badger

Weekly, depth psychotherapy.

I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect.

Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. I provide a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world - your dreams, patterns, and inner life - and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.

Psychotherapy in South Manchester and online

I offer individual and group therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Replies

Please note that I will respond to all enquiries made through this site by email. Unfortunately, if you do not wish to be contacted by email, I will be unable to respond to you. I generally reply within 2 working days unless I am away, so please check your SPAM / JUNK folder.

Contacting me directly

My email is: carinabadgerwellbeing@gmail.com

Working hours

I work Mondays - Thursdays

Perhaps some of this sounds familiar...

• You feel stuck in the same patterns of behaviour and can’t work out how to change this
• You don't ask for your needs to be met and maybe don't tend to share your feelings
• You struggle to make sense of your dynamics with others
• You’ve been feeling anxious or stressed
• Maybe you feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges
• You feel disconnected from yourself and others sometimes
• You are having issues at work such as a redundancy or are going through an HR process
• You're facing (or have just had) a big change and you're struggling to get your bearings
• You’re not thriving

🏳️‍🌈 I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative, sex and fat positive counsellor. I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy.

I'm curious, human, professional and compassionate. I offer a warm, down to earth and professional service.

What sort of issues do I help clients with?

• Anxiety including social anxiety, and stress
• Overwhelm
• Work issues
• Loneliness and feeling low
• Always the helper, rarely the helped
• Low self-esteem and low self-confidence
• Relationship challenges such as difficulties with partners, friends or families, affairs and betrayals, separation and divorce
• Attachment difficulties
• Bereavement, grief and loss
• Life transitions such as children leaving home, menopause, coming out, a relationship breakdown, a bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement or something else. These transition periods can bring up a range of emotions that can feel overwhelming and bewildering

I firmly believe that you write your own life story. But it can feel hard to face things alone or make sense of the challenges life can present. It gives me such joy working with people who want to dig in — to do the work to create positive, lasting changes in their lives.

Fully qualified BACP therapist and counsellor also in Advanced Training in Psychotherapy towards UKCP accreditation.

Key qualifications

• CTA (P) - Certified Transactional Analyst
• Postgraduate Diploma in Transactional Analysis with an Integrative Lens Psychotherapy
• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction)
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (accredited by BACP)
• Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity training
• Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond
• Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
• Couples Institute in a Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy
• Certificate in Diversity within Contemporary Relationship Therapy: Working Alongside Trans, Non-Binary and Questioning Clients; Other Loves: Polyamory, Polygamy and Arranged Marriages; Kink; Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity; Neurodivergence, Sex and Relationships
• Weight Stigma and Fatphobia in the Therapy Room
• Counselling and psychotherapy for grief and loss
• ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring

I undergo regular training to support my practice. Workshops I have taken include managing anxiety including social anxiety, mindfulness and integrating the breath, trauma-informed practice, equity, diversity and inclusion, existential psychotherapy, menopause, imposter syndrome, neurodivergence, and anti-rascist practice.

Weekly, depth psychotherapy.

I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect.

Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. I provide a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world - your dreams, patterns, and inner life - and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.

Psychotherapy in South Manchester and online

I offer individual and group therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Replies

Please note that I will respond to all enquiries made through this site by email. Unfortunately, if you do not wish to be contacted by email, I will be unable to respond to you. I generally reply within 2 working days unless I am away, so please check your SPAM / JUNK folder.

Contacting me directly

My email is: carinabadgerwellbeing@gmail.com

Working hours

I work Mondays - Thursdays

Perhaps some of these sound familiar...

• You feel stuck in the same patterns and can’t work out how to shift this
• You struggle to make sense of your dynamics with others
• You don't feel good enough
• You want to process some childhood or other experiences
• You notice shame holds you back
• You’ve been feeling anxious or stressed a lot of the time
• Maybe you feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges
• You're facing a big change
• Life feels empty and without meaning or purpose
• You’re not thriving

🌿 I have an ecologically-minded practice which means that I consider place, planet and the non-human in my work. If this is important to you, I welcome discussion around this in my therapy work.

What sort of issues do I help clients with?

Some of the sorts of areas I work with include:

• Repeated patterns of thinking or behaving where you feel stuck
• Overwhelm and anxiety including social anxiety, and stress
• Processing earlier experiences
• Life changes and transitions such as children leaving home, menopause, coming out, relationship break-up, bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement or something else
• Low self-esteem and self-confidence including a sense of being an imposter
• Relationship challenges such as difficulties with partners, friends or families, affairs and betrayals, separation and divorce
• Work issues including people facing disciplinary or redundancy
• Attachment difficulties
• Bereavement, grief and loss
• End-of-life including caring for another with an illness
• Exploring meaning and purpose in life

You can expect a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space. My approach is warm and compassionate.

🏳️‍🌈 I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative psychotherapist. I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Fully qualified BACP registered and UKCP accredited psychotherapist.

Key qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (2 years, Level 7, Distinction)
• Diploma in Integrative Transactional Analysis (4 years, Level 7)
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2 years, accredited by BACP)
• Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity training
• Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond
• Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
• Couples Institute in a Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy

• Certificate in Diversity within Contemporary Relationship Therapy: Working Alongside Trans, Non-Binary and Questioning Clients; Other Loves: Polyamory, Polygamy and Arranged Marriages; Kink; Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity; Neurodivergence, Sex and Relationships
• Weight Stigma and Fatphobia in the Therapy Room
• Counselling and psychotherapy for grief and loss
• ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring

I undergo regular training to support my practice. Workshops I have taken include managing anxiety including social anxiety, mindfulness and integrating the breath, trauma-informed practice, equity, diversity and inclusion, existential psychotherapy, menopause, imposter syndrome, neurodivergence, and anti-racist practice.

Assessment session - half price

I appreciate taking the first step and making contact with a counsellor or therapist can be daunting. It’s natural to feel uncomfortable or hesitant as it is a big commitment.

I offer the first assessment session at half price, which is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how I work, and for us both to see if we would be a good fit to work together.

Weekly, depth psychotherapy.

I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect.

Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. I provide a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world - your dreams, patterns, and inner life - and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.

Psychotherapy in South Manchester and online

I offer individual and group therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Replies

Please note that I will respond to all enquiries made through this site by email. Unfortunately, if you do not wish to be contacted by email, I will be unable to respond to you. I generally reply within 2 working days unless I am away, so please check your SPAM / JUNK folder.

Contacting me directly

My email is: carinabadgerwellbeing@gmail.com

Working hours

I work Mondays - Thursdays

Perhaps some of these sound familiar...

• You feel stuck in the same patterns and can’t work out how to shift this
• You struggle to make sense of your dynamics with others
• You don't feel good enough
• You want to process some childhood or other experiences
• You notice shame holds you back
• You’ve been feeling anxious or stressed a lot of the time
• Maybe you feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges
• You're facing a big change
• Life feels empty and without meaning or purpose
• You’re not thriving

🌿 I have an ecologically-minded practice which means that I consider place, planet and the non-human in my work. If this is important to you, I welcome discussion around this in my therapy work.

What sort of issues do I help clients with?

Some of the sorts of areas I work with include:

• Repeated patterns of thinking or behaving where you feel stuck
• Overwhelm and anxiety including social anxiety, and stress
• Processing earlier experiences
• Life changes and transitions such as children leaving home, menopause, coming out, relationship break-up, bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement or something else
• Low self-esteem and self-confidence including a sense of being an imposter
• Relationship challenges such as difficulties with partners, friends or families, affairs and betrayals, separation and divorce
• Work issues including people facing disciplinary or redundancy
• Attachment difficulties
• Bereavement, grief and loss
• End-of-life including caring for another with an illness
• Exploring meaning and purpose in life

You can expect a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space. My approach is warm and compassionate.

🏳️‍🌈 I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative psychotherapist. I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Fully qualified BACP registered and UKCP accredited psychotherapist

Key qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (2 years, Level 7, Distinction)

• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2 years, accredited by BACP)
• Diploma in Integrative Transactional Analysis (4 years, Level 7)
• Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity training
• Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond
• Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
• Couples Institute in a Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy
• Certificate in Diversity within Contemporary Relationship Therapy: Working Alongside Trans, Non-Binary and Questioning Clients; Other Loves: Polyamory, Polygamy and Arranged Marriages; Kink; Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity; Neurodivergence, Sex and Relationships
• Weight Stigma and Fatphobia in the Therapy Room
• Counselling and psychotherapy for grief and loss
• ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring

I undergo regular training to support my practice. Workshops I have taken include managing anxiety including social anxiety, mindfulness and integrating the breath, trauma-informed practice, equity, diversity and inclusion, existential psychotherapy, menopause, imposter syndrome, neurodivergence, and anti-racist practice.

Assessment session - half price

I appreciate taking the first step and making contact with a counsellor or therapist can be daunting. It’s natural to feel uncomfortable or hesitant as it is a big commitment.

I offer the first assessment session at half price, which is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how I work, and for us both to see if we would be a good fit to work together.

Weekly, depth psychotherapy.

I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect.

Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. I provide a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world - your dreams, patterns, and inner life - and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.

Psychotherapy in South Manchester and online

I offer individual and group therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

UKCP accredited Psychotherapist and Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapy) (CTA)

Replies

Please note that I will respond to all enquiries made through this site by email. Unfortunately, if you do not wish to be contacted by email, I will be unable to respond to you. I generally reply within 2 working days unless I am away, so please check your SPAM / JUNK folder.

Contacting me directly

My email is: carinabadgerwellbeing@gmail.com

Working hours

I work Mondays - Thursdays

Perhaps some of these sound familiar...

• You feel stuck in the same patterns and can’t work out how to shift this
• You struggle to make sense of your dynamics with others
• You don't feel good enough
• You want to process some childhood or other experiences
• You notice shame holds you back
• You’ve been feeling anxious or stressed a lot of the time
• Maybe you feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges
• You're facing a big change
• Life feels empty and without meaning or purpose
• You’re not thriving

🌿 I have an ecologically-minded practice which means that I consider place, planet and the non-human in my work. If this is important to you, I welcome discussion around this in my therapy work.

What sort of issues do I help clients with?

• Some of the sorts of areas I work with include:
• Repeated patterns of thinking or behaving where you feel stuck
• Overwhelm and anxiety including social anxiety, and stress
• Processing earlier experiences
• Life changes and transitions such as children leaving home, menopause, coming out, relationship break-up, bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement or something else
• Low self-esteem and self-confidence including a sense of being an imposter
• Relationship challenges such as difficulties with partners, friends or families, affairs and betrayals, separation and divorce
• Work issues including people facing disciplinary or redundancy
• Attachment difficulties
• Bereavement, grief and loss
• End-of-life including caring for another with an illness
• Exploring meaning and purpose in life

You can expect a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space. My approach is warm and compassionate.

🏳️‍🌈 I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative psychotherapist. I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Fully qualified BACP registered and UKCP accredited psychotherapist (for SCoPEd or PCPB purposes this is Column C) . I see clients in Manchester (Didsbury, Chorlton or Urmston).

Key qualifications

• Certified Transactional Analyst
• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (2 years, Level 7, Distinction)
• Diploma in Integrative Transactional Analysis (4 years, Level 7)
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2 years, accredited by BACP)
• Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity training
• Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond
• Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
• Couples Institute in a Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy
• Certificate in Diversity within Contemporary Relationship Therapy: Working Alongside Trans, Non-Binary and Questioning Clients; Other Loves: Polyamory, Polygamy and Arranged Marriages; Kink; Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity; Neurodivergence, Sex and Relationships
• Weight Stigma and Fatphobia in the Therapy Room
• Counselling and psychotherapy for grief and loss
• ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring

I undergo regular training to support my practice. Workshops I have taken include managing anxiety including social anxiety, mindfulness and integrating the breath, trauma-informed practice, equity, diversity and inclusion, existential psychotherapy, menopause, imposter syndrome, neurodivergence, and anti-racist practice.

Assessment session - half price

I appreciate taking the first step and making contact with a counsellor or therapist can be daunting. It’s natural to feel uncomfortable or hesitant as it is a big commitment.

I offer the first assessment session at half price, which is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how I work, and for us both to see if we would be a good fit to work together.

Weekly, depth psychotherapy. 

I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect. 

Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. I provide a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world - your dreams, patterns, and inner life - and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.

Psychotherapy in South Manchester and online

I offer individual and group therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Replies

Please note that I will respond to all enquiries made through this site by email. Unfortunately, if you do not wish to be contacted by email, I will be unable to respond to you. I generally reply within 2 working days unless I am away, so please check your SPAM / JUNK folder.

Contacting me directly

My email is: carinabadgerwellbeing@gmail.com

Working hours

I work Mondays - Thursdays

Perhaps some of these sound familiar...

• You feel stuck in the same patterns and can’t work out how to shift this
• You struggle to make sense of your dynamics with others
• You don't feel good enough
• You want to process some childhood or other experiences
• You notice shame holds you back
• You’ve been feeling anxious or stressed a lot of the time
• Maybe you feel overwhelmed by life’s challenges
• You're facing a big change
• Life feels empty and without meaning or purpose
• You’re not thriving

🌿 I have an ecologically-minded practice which means that I consider place, planet and the non-human in my work. If this is important to you, I welcome discussion around this in my therapy work.

What sort of issues do I help clients with?

Some of the sorts of areas I work with include:

• Repeated patterns of thinking or behaving where you feel stuck
• Overwhelm and anxiety including social anxiety, and stress
• Processing earlier experiences
• Life changes and transitions such as children leaving home, menopause, coming out, relationship break-up, bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement or something else
• Low self-esteem and self-confidence including a sense of being an imposter
• Relationship challenges such as difficulties with partners, friends or families, affairs and betrayals, separation and divorce
• Work issues including people facing disciplinary or redundancy
• Attachment difficulties
• Bereavement, grief and loss
• End-of-life including caring for another with an illness
• Exploring meaning and purpose in life

You can expect a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space. My approach is warm and compassionate. 

🏳️‍🌈 I am an LGBTQ+ affirmative therapist. I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy.

You can find more information on my website, including my current availability: www.carinabadgerwellbeing.com

Fully qualified BACP registered and UKCP accredited psychotherapist

Key qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (Distinction)
• Diploma in Integrative Transactional Analysis (4 years, Level 7)
• Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (accredited by BACP)
• Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity training
• Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology: Polyvagal Theory and Beyond
• Certificate in Delivering Group Therapy
• Couples Institute in a Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy
• Certificate in Diversity within Contemporary Relationship Therapy: Working Alongside Trans, Non-Binary and Questioning Clients; Other Loves: Polyamory, Polygamy and Arranged Marriages; Kink; Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity; Neurodivergence, Sex and Relationships
• Weight Stigma and Fatphobia in the Therapy Room
• Counselling and psychotherapy for grief and loss
• ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring

I undergo regular training to support my practice. Workshops I have taken include managing anxiety including social anxiety, mindfulness and integrating the breath, trauma-informed practice, equity, diversity and inclusion, existential psychotherapy, menopause, imposter syndrome, neurodivergence, and anti-racist practice.

Assessment session - half price

I appreciate taking the first step and making contact with a counsellor or therapist can be daunting. It’s natural to feel uncomfortable or hesitant as it is a big commitment.

I offer the first assessment session at half price, which is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how I work, and for us both to see if we would be a good fit to work together.