Karen Shaw
Counsellor
Languages
Type of session
Online, In-person
Location
Services I offer
Standard Session
1 session x
50 minutes
Price: £50
I can help with
Do you want somewhere safe to talk?
Are you troubled by traumatic memories?
Are you struggling with depression, anxiety and/or stress?
Would you like to improve your confidence & self-esteem
About me
I am an integrative, relational, humanist psychotherapeutic counsellor. This means that I have learnt various counselling models and use my skills and experience to tailor a therapeutic approach that is individual to you and your needs, to help you reach your goals.
I offer a range of techniques to support therapeutic exploration and change. This can include inner child work, the use of story and metaphor, sand tray, guided imagery, dream work, drawing, painting, clay, body work, ...
Types of therapy I offer
- Mindfulness based therapies
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Person centred therapy
- Transactional Analysis
- Integrative counselling
Client groups I am able to support
- Individual / Adult
- Older adult
Other specialist skills and experiences
- Caregiver
- Expat living & relocation
- Sex positive/ kink allied
LGBTQ+ affirming therapy I offer
- Bisexual
- Gay
- Lesbian
- Transgender
- Questioning
- Asexual
- Other
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Level 6 BACP and UKCP Accredited Course)
ReWind Trauma Therapy
ASIST Suicide Intervention
Enhanced DBS Clearance
As a member of the BACP, I adhere to their Ethical Framework (2018) which recommends I undertake regular Continual Professional Development (CPD) training. Some examples of CPD courses I have undertaken include:
- Working with Suicide
- Inner Child
- Integrative Sand Play
- Counselling for End-of-Life Clients
- Counselling for Autistic Clients
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Gender Based Violence
- Working with Sexual Problems
- Current Thinking in GSRD Therapy
- GSRD – Queerness and Polyamory
- Strategies to Improve Relationships
- Story and Metaphor
- Fairy tale Life Script
I have worked within a hospice setting providing counselling for end of life, pre and post bereavement. I have also worked for a charity and educational establishment where I provided counselling for many issues including sexual and domestic abuse/violence and trauma stemming from childhood experiences of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and neglect.
Other clients that I have worked with experienced dissociation; struggles in the workplace; bullying; low self-confidence; loss of identity; relationship issues; caring responsibilities and many more.
Health at Every Size (HAES) affirming therapy
Neurodiverse (ND) affirming therapy
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