About me
Healing State Counselling and Psychotherapy.- Karen Hegarty
BACP Registered Person-Centred Counsellor/Psychotherapist. Individual and Couples Relationship Counsellor. Trauma Therapist. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Coach
“Your relationship with yourself can shape how you relate to others.”
Individual Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy
Karen is a professionally qualified Person-Centred Counsellor/Psychotherapist with many years experience and extensive training, working from a Trauma-Informed, Relationship-Focused, Mindfulness-Based practice, working therapeutically to meet the needs of Individuals and Couples age 16 years and over, who wish to explore their inner world and understand how their past experiences have shaped who they are and how they relate to others in their life today.
Karen provides a confidential, compassionate space for you to pause and talk freely with her, whilst feeling genuinely heard, understood and accepted, as you begin to explore and understand your emotional experiences and difficulties at your own pace. This can help you build self-awareness and emotional regulation to reconnect with the trust and value in yourself which allows you the opportunity to discover solutions that will give you choice and the confidence to find your own way forward, developing psychological healing and growth to create lasting positive changes in your life.
What Counselling can help you with.
Karen's experience lies in supporting people not to feel so alone with the emotional changes and inner conflict from Trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, Relationships, Anxiety, Stress, Self-Esteem, Fear or Loss. Addictions, Menopause, Burnout or Long-Term Health Conditions. With a focus on how these difficulties shape the relationship we have with ourselves and on how we think, feel, behave and respond in relation to others and to the world around us.
Healing State Counselling and Psychotherapy offers
Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy
Individual Counselling
Couples Counselling
Trauma Therapy
Relationship Counselling for Individuals.
Anxiety Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Somatic Body-Based Practices.
Coaching(Life Coaching).
Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping)
Traumatic Incident Reduction.
Couples Therapy
Relationships can be rewarding, but also bring our deepest vulnerabilities to the surface.
Counselling provides a collaborative space for couples to explore recurring, unresolved relational experiences, patterns, behaviours, conflict cycles and emotional disconnection that can feel difficult to change. Karen’s integrated approach centres around the dynamics between the partners, does not take sides or focus on who is right or wrong. Instead, she helps couples recognise their contributions to this cycle, take accountability, express their needs, so both partners feel heard and understood, while together developing relational skills to rebuild trust, intimacy, connection and communication.
Trauma Therapy
Karen’s therapeutic approach helps you safely build trust to explore and process past traumatic experiences that may have left you feeling disconnected from how you experience yourself, your emotions, relationships and sense of safety in the world today.She draws on Person-Centred,Trauma-Informed and Somatic Body-Based practices to help you move safely out of the protective survival responses towards restoring emotional regulation, connection and safety within yourself.
Individual Relationship Counselling
The relationship you have with yourself, shapes how you think, feel, behave and respond in relation to others. Exploring this can allow you a deeper understanding of your own emotional needs, identity, self-worth, boundaries and attachment style to reconnect with a stronger sense of self and trust in how you show up in your relationships.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Mindfulness-Based techniques can help change your relationship with difficult thoughts, feelings and sensations by learning to notice what is happening in your mind-body connection in the present moment, which can help you feel calmer, manage daily stress and reduce emotional reactivity.
I also provide Emotional Freedom Technique(Tapping) that helps to reduce and manage difficult emotions and unhelpful thought patterns. Together with Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), a method that effectively helps reduce traumatic stress from emotionally painful events in the past. I also Coach (Life Coaching) to help support clients to focus on a particular area of their life that they want to change.
The relationship between Counsellor and Client is very important to me and I believe is core to facilitating change and healing. I also believe in engaging in regular continued professional development training as a duty of care to my clients.
Taking the First Step
Reaching out for therapy can feel overwhelming, Karen offers a free confidential 30 minute introductory chat, giving you space to talk, ask questions and discover more about therapy, with no obligation.
Karen offers face-to-face counselling and online therapy via Zoom, working with individuals and couples (16+).
I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and adhere to its Ethical Framework.
Please feel free to visit my website at www.healingstatecounselling.com for any further information you may require or drop me an email as I am happy to answer any questions you may have.
Warmest Wishes
Karen
Training, qualifications & experience
Below are my Professional Qualifications and some of the extensive further trainings in all of the therapies I offer support with. I have years of experience working in private practice and working with many charities. I feel it is so important to continually keep developing and learning within my Counselling practice so that I am up to date with the relevant practices that will in turn benefit my client's experience in Counselling.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Strathclyde University (BACP Accredited)
- Certificate in Counselling Children and Young People. (COSCA). Strathclyde University.
- Extensive Trauma therapy training in all areas of Trauma and recovery
- Trauma Incident Reduction (TIR) Certified Training
- Extensive training in Anxiety Management
- Trauma Related Dysregulation Training
- Complex Trauma Certification Training
- Somatic Body-Based Practise Training
- Working with Trauma in Counselling Training – Glasgow University
- Limbic system reversing Trauma Physiological imprint training
- Trauma Vagal System treatment training
- Anger Management Training
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR Training - Glasgow University
- Mindfulness in Loss and Grief Training
- Mindfulness and Relationships Training
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) (Tapping) Training
- Drug and Alcohol Addiction Training
- Relational Life Therapy for Couples Therapy
- Relational Reset Training
- Using CBT to manage Menopause Training
- Coaching
- Suicide and self Harm and Client Risk Training
I work face-to-face and online within my private practice Healing State Counselling and Psychotherapy .
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
£65.00 per 60 minute Individual Counselling appointment.
£95.00 per 60 minute Couples Therapy appointment
I offer a free introductory 30 minute Chat by Zoom or Telephone with no obligation to continue, giving you space to talk about what has brought you to Counselling, ask any questions you may have about the Counselling process before you make a decision on whether Counselling is right for you.
When I work
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I work face-to-face in Bearsden or Milngavie or Online via Zoom. Face-to-face appointments are available Thursday evenings and Saturdays mornings and can be organised on others days and times on request.
