B. Soc Sc (Psych), B A (Hons), B. Psych (Couns), MAPS Hart Centre Certified
Karen is a highly qualified and experienced Counselling Psychologist who has worked in a variety of counselling organisations over the past ten years, and more recently in her own private practice. Karen has experience in counselling couples and individuals with a wide range of presenting concerns including relationship difficulties, depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, trauma, and other psychological issues.
Karen specialises in couple relationship issues. Her doctoral research considered factors that impact on the relationship satisfaction of couples with dependent children, such as their attachment, conflict styles and level of emotional intelligence. Through this research, Karen was able to identify important therapeutic interventions in order to assist couples to enhance and improve their relationships, particularly whilst they are facing the challenges of parenting dependent children.
Karen uses a variety of therapeutic approaches in her counselling work, but above all, she strives to create a warm and caring environment where the specific needs of her clients are central to the therapeutic process. As a mother of three teenage children, Karen also brings a wealth of life experience to her understanding of couple and parenting issues.
Ann.
Registered Psychologist
B. Sc (Hons) (Physiol); B. Sc (Hons) (Psych); Grad Dip App Psych; MAPS Hart Centre Certified
Ann creates strong connections with clients and effective working environments. Her clients feel comfortable in the knowledge that they are ‘in safe hands’, which enables them to open up and share their thoughts and troubles. This then allows Ann to use a variety of practices and techniques to help her clients get to a place that is healthier and happier, and to depart her service to continue their journey on their own. Ann has helped hundreds of people in this way.
It is of particular interest to Ann to work with people who want to improve their relationships. This has seen her help many couples improve their communication, resolve long-standing disagreements or ‘simply’ reconnect after having drifted apart. Ann’s interest in relationship work extends beyond romantic relationships to include extended family relationships, relationships at work and so on. She has also worked with individuals and successfully helped them deal with depression, anxiety, loss and grief, and anger, to name a few. Finally, Ann has led many group programs that have helped people to improve their self-awareness, particularly in the corporate sector.
Ann likes to partner with her clients and engage them in decisions around the areas of focus, the duration of the work, the review of progress and what success looks like. In this way, Ann’s clients are active participants in the therapeutic process and ultimately, in their own healing.
Having worked as a psychologist for many years, Ann keeps up to date with the practice and application of current psychological techniques and plans to complete her doctoral degree in counselling psychology in 2012. She effectively translates what is known about human psychology into effective practice, tailoring it to the individual needs of her clients so that they understand it as it relates to them and can take it with them into the future.
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