Psychological Therapy and Counselling with Individuals and Couples working online

A warm welcome to my site. Seeking therapy to deal with the issues that you are currently facing is not an easy decision and finding the right therapist can be tricky too.

My aim is to put you at ease and help you to enhance your mental health & personal well-being. With a wealth of experience and training spanning over 25 years, I am able to draw upon a range of therapeutic approaches to serve your needs. The main bulk of my client work involves dealing with trauma related symptoms and triggers with individuals and couples. EMDR therapy is my main therapeutic approach, applying other therapeutic interventions as adjuncts.

Adopting a compassionate, mindful approach, together we can work towards helping you to gain greater insight into your behaviours and beliefs and gain more control by recalibrating your system, getting back towards base line comfort. 

This may be your first step in acknowledging that your old strategies for dealing with the challenges of everyday life are no longer working for you and are holding you back in life. These strategies are natural biological responses we use to survive, our systems of defence, to get significant others to love us, or like us, or accept us, yet over time leave us doubting if we are really loved, liked or accepted for who we truly are.

Coming for therapy might be seen in a similar way to attending to a message that flashes on your car dashboard that you do not understand and are uncertain whether you are in danger or not. So you have to find a safe place to pull over to try and make sense of what is happening. When you experience trauma triggers such as fear, anxiety, overwhelm, panic, terror, shock, etc. and you need to figure out what is causing this activation to wire and fire in your mind/body. So you may reach for a therapist who can help you to explore within yourself what is behind the meaning of your own internal dashboard warning signs and try to get down to the root causes. It is your mind/body that is doing the work with the therapist!s facilitation.

Working online

I offer online therapy. In the right environment and with the right technology, working online can offer convenience, accessibility and flexible scheduling.

I work between the hours of 8 am until 4.30 pm Mon-Wed and Thursday from 8 am until 12 noon.

If you can engage in therapy from a safe, private and confidential space, online therapy can provide a discreet, safe and judgment free space to you to explore, express and work through your present day concerns, vulnerabilities, thoughts, emotions, sensations, shame, pain, hopes, dreams, impulses, fears, anxieties, etc.

Is online therapy effective?

I transitioned to online therapy during COVID-19. Pre-pandemic, the question of working online was met with skepticism. There was not much research to reinforce whether good outcomes were the norm. As the pandemic unfolded more and more EMDR therapists began using EMDR therapy online, as well as many other therapeutic orientations such as Brainspotting which I personally carried out online and till do. Since the pandemic many therapeutic approaches are carried out online. Below you will find some research specifically on EMDR therapy conducted online.

 https://etq.emdrassociation.org.uk/case-study/online-emdr-is-effective-its-official/

Please do feel free to send me an email with a brief synopsis of your present day concerns and hopes from therapy prior to arranging a first session to karen@just4therapy.com

Look forward to hearing from you.

Karen