Karen Woodley
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About me
I love what the Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC) says:
"Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy relies upon the importance of the relationship between the therapist and client to enable mind, body, feeling, and soul to come together as a whole."
I know how vital the one-to-one personal/professional relationship is in helping you re-discover or discover who you are for the first time and find your place in the world. I work with childhood traumas, anxiety-related issues, relationship difficulties, complicated grief, low self-esteem, shyness, loneliness, depression, Menopause and Neurodiversity.
You can heal your past, make new and different choices, see situations and people more objectively, and change the way you think. New ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving can emerge.
I work in private practice and am a member of the United Kingdom Association of Transactional Analysis (UKATA), the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA), the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). I work within the United Kingdom Association Counselling and Psychotherapy (UKCP) Ethical framework.
Training, qualifications & experience
My Qualifications are:
* MA Movement Psychotherapy Canterbury Christchurch University
* MNCPS Accred. Counsellor
* Diploma in Advanced Counselling Supervision
* Clinical Transactional Analysis PG Diploma
I am approaching my 5th Clinical year of Transactional Analysis training
My ongoing Professional Development Training includes the following:
TA 101 – TACymru
Tending to trauma and the trauma pathway-BdT Trauma Recovery Training & Consultancy
Certificate in working with trauma- Becoming Ubuntu
Working with the Traumatised Inner Child (C-PTSD)- Becoming Ubuntu
Couples Counselling – Gloucestershire Counselling Service
Eco-Therapy’ working without walls’-TACymru
Child Sexual Abuse and How to Work with Survivors- NCPS
Working with the dynamics of shame- Carolyn Spring
Working with survivors of Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
Working with grief and Loss
Energy psychology training
Internal Family systems
Family Constellations
Member organisations
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The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 - £65.00
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Counselling sessions
Individual: £55 for 50 mins
Couples: £65
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Further information
Throughout my work with people with anxieties, traumas, difficulties in relationships, psychosomatic illnesses, stress and depression, I have found that there is often a constant fear or panic; many people believe this means they are faulty in some way, but fear and anxiety indicate CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). This is common in people with relational traumas and relational ruptures throughout their lives. It shows Interpersonal difficulties, emotional dysregulation, unexplainable psychosomatic symptoms and negative self-beliefs connected to shame and guilt. C-PTSD is a shattering of goodness, of sound relational systems in one’s life.
