Karen Dibbens BSc (Hons) Dip Couns. MBACP

Poole Dorset BH12
07890 239872 Click here to Email me

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I offer a warm, safe and confidential space for you to be listened to.

I work at your pace helping you to explore what you really want both from the counselling therapy and then concentrating more specifically on areas in your life/relationships you'd like to change or improve.

If you have problems that keep going around and around in your head. If you are unhappy and can't identify why. If you are really struggling to cope with life :-

Counselling can offer an amazingly good emotional release, offering you the comfort of feeling truly listened to. I will endeavour to offer empathy and be completely non-judgemental of whatever information you bring to the session.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Experience of working with family problems. Relationship breakdown, divorce, anger management, bereavement, conflicts with parents, children, friends. Domestic violence and rape. I have worked with those with low self esteem, depression and anxiety.

I have also worked with those with Drug and Alcohol addictions. As well as the partners of those with addictions.

Applied Psychology and Computing Bsc (Hons)
Counselling Diploma

PTTLS Teaching Qualification

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Alcoholism
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Couples Counselling
• Dementia
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Gambling
• Generalised Anxiety
• HIV/AIDS
• Infertility
• Internet Addiction
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Personality Disorders
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Psychosexual Therapy
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Smoking
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Domestic Violence, childhood abuse. Addictions including drugs, alcohol and gambling. Sexual abuse in childhood and rape.

Therapies Offered

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Gestalt Therapy
  - Transactional Analysis

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative
  - Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy

Fees

£35.00 per 50 minute therapy session.

£45.00 per 50 minute therapy session for couples

I offer reductions for those on benefits, low incomes and students.

Free half hour initial assessment.

Further Information

I offer a free initial consultation and assessment. This gives you the chance to see whether you feel either I or counselling itself will be suitable for you.

I am a member of the BACP British Association of Counselling Psychotherapists.

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

Member Organisation(s)