"Day and evening appointments available."
"All the evidence suggests that it is how you manage change that matters, not the fact that you experience such a change in your life."
Suzie Hayman
Counselling for Individuals
Fundamental to Karen’s practice is in acknowledging and valuing the uniqueness of individual clients. Karen respects your own set of realities and your own meanings about the situations in which you find yourself.
Karen will engage with you with empathy, genuineness and acceptance and create a safe and supportive environment within which you can explore and address your concerns.
Individual Counselling
Individual counselling can be about a wide range of issues, for example, abuse, bereavement, anxiety, low mood, self-esteem, life transitions, relationships, sex, sexuality, stress and external life events. By exploring the problem Karen can help clarify the issues and make sense of happened. She can also help you address the root of the problem and take action to deal with it.
Relationship Counselling
Relationship counselling is available for individuals, couples and families. You can attend whether you are single and are having difficulties maintaining and sustaining relationships, or, as one party of a couple.
You may be deciding whether to marry or not marry, to stay or leave a relationship, choosing between relationships, or be trying to make sense of and understand why your relationship has broken down. In working individually couple issues can still be solved by keeping a relationship focus.
Work Related Counselling
Work can be a very stressful place. The reasons for this may be many and varied. Some include personality issues with line managers or colleagues. You may feel you are being bullied, or, harassed which can lead to feelings of anxiety and fear as well as physical and emotional ill health.
Karen can offer a containing and supportive environment within which you can address the causes of your stress and help find solutions to the problems being faced.
Sexual addictions
Karen has experienced an increase in clients presenting with sexual addictions. Shame is often a big part of this process and Karen will deal sensitively with this. Consequences of sexual addiction can be devastating including loss of a relationship, home, job and self-esteem.
Karen will make an assessment as to whether this is an addiction. If this is the case she will explore the underlying factors and work with you to aid recovery.
Individual relationship counselling sessions are available at our Belfast and Bangor locations. For more information about relationship counselling, self-esteem, depression or anxiety counselling please contact us today.