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Why Work With Karen

Finding the right person to talk with and work through difficulties, or painful experiences is important when starting online counselling. I aim to provide a safe space, where you can be yourself and bring what is troubling, distressing, or unsettling you. As we work together we will share the ups and downs of therapy, the difficulties, and perhaps painful emotions, the joys of success, the wins of trying something different and it working.

 

There may be tears shed, there may be laughter, there will be new awareness, rediscovery of choices and skills learnt to help with making choices for current and future life’s events.

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How I work

My way of working therapeutically is with Gestalt therapy at the core and I integrate other therapeutic models where they sit alongside Gestalt.

 

I will listen carefully to the words you speak or write, responding with care, compassion and sometimes with challenge. I will be alongside you in your pain or distress, or confusion about your current circumstances.

We will focus on the here and now,raising your awareness around situations, or issues, or thoughts you want to explore, whether that is a current life experience
or a memory from past ones.

What is Gestalt

What is Gestalt?

Gestalt therapy, in essence, says that no one part is greater than the sum of the whole.

 

In other words, it looks at patterns of behaviour and/or thinking, and how you feel about those patterns; whether you want to make changes, or feel stuck
about something, or are curious about your way of being in the world.

Why Online Counselling

Why Online?

I work exclusively online and have done since 2020 using various platforms. We will discover together which online platform works best for you or suits you most.


We work together in the same time frame at an agreed time and day when using video, telephone or messaging. For email, we work in different time frames, we agree together when you will send your email and when my response will be.


Choosing to access therapy online may be due to a variety of reasons, from preference to be in familiar surroundings, limited transport options, health or busy
work life. Research has shown online therapy is as effective as in-person.

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My Experience

I have worked as an online counsellor since 2020, completing further training to work online for both counselling and supervision. I have worked in private practice since 2005 while combining counselling work in GP surgeries and an NHS Maternity Unit.

 

I am skilled at working with clients for short term work of up to eight to ten sessions or longer term, 12 weeks and over. My clients are adults over the age of 18 years old.


Some people come to therapy because they areunhappy and want to know why; others want to process significant life events. Others bring a range of emotional difficulties and struggles from generalised or specific anxiety, bereavement, low self-esteem, low self-worth, mild depression, relationship
problems, and stress.

Areas of interest in online counselling

Living with Neurodivergence in a Neurotypical world

I am dyslexic and have family members who are neurodivergent. I was late diagnosed and understand the challenges of processing the world in a different way, and discovering that this was ok was a relief. I am increasingly working with neurodivergent clients and supervisees who have been late diagnosed or not, with
clients whose partners have been late diagnosed as neurodivergent.

 

Together we can explore the challenges of living in a neurotypical dominant world and how we
can be ourselves alongside others who process the world differently to us.

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