Karen Dibbens BSc (Hons) Dip Couns. MBACP
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Please note - at present due to the COVID-19 situation I am only able to undertake video link counselling or phone Counselling.
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 issues. 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
Member organisations
Accredited register membership
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Dementia
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Domestic violence
- Drug addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic attacks
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Tourette's syndrome
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
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
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Fees
£55. Per 50 minute therapy session.
£70. per 50 minute therapy session for couples
Initial assessment 1/2 hour appointment. £35 for individuals
£45 for couples Initial assessment.
This is your chance to meet me and see whether therapy,
my type of therapy and me as an individual therapist feels the right fit for you.
Further information
I offer no obligation initial assessment. This is your chance to meet me and see whether Counselling, my type of counselling style, feels the right fit for you.
I am a member of the BACP British Association of Counselling Psychotherapists.
Maps & Directions
Christchurch, BH23
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | Unspecified |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair user access: | No |
My therapy room is located up a small flight of stairs.
Availability
Morning, afternoon and evening appointments available.
Types of client
| Children |
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Couples |
| Families |
| Groups |
| Organisations |
| Employee Assistance Programme |
