About me
Karen works with individuals, couples and families. She is a psychotherapist (UKCP reg) and counsellor (MBACP). She is a licensed hypnotherapist.
Karen has been a qualified and practising therapist for 27 years.
She is extensively trained and experienced to work with people on emotional, loss and relationship, plus anxiety and stress-related issues of all kinds.
Training, qualifications & experience
Karen has studied and trained in the following major approaches and fields of expertise: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Hypnotherapy (2 years.. 1992-4), Adlerian counselling (2 years .. 1995-97) Existential Psychotherapy (a 3-year Masters degree 1999-2001), Adoption Counselling ( 2 years..2004-2006) and Systemic Therapy (2 years ... 2005-2007).
Karen is an infertility counsellor and is accredited by the British Infertility Counselling Association.
Karen has trained up to Advanced level in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). She sometimes uses this to help people recover from both major trauma and multiple minor traumas.
Karen is now able to include Emotionally Focussed Therapy in her work with couples.
Karen applies her knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the person/people with her.
Member organisations
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
sense of identity
eating distress
women' issues
cultural issues
fear about the future
struggling due to dyslexia
coping with Asperges Syndrome or high functioning Autism
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
£60.00 per session for individuals (from June 2018)
£70.00 per session for couples
£75.00 per session for families
Availability
Weekdays and evenings