Approach

…creativity of her approach inspires real change…

Karen King has a humble dedication to her work, serving as a psychotherapist with a special focus on supporting individuals navigating the complexities of life's later chapters. From her expertise in Post Traumatic Growth, she offers compassionate insight to those facing the inevitable ebbs and flows that come with age and life's transitions, whether it's providing solace to individuals grappling with the challenges of aging parents, offering comfort to those adjusting to shifting relationships, or helping individuals find resilience in the face of health or career changes. Depression, Anxiety, Grief, Loss and Stress can all be a result of these sudden or inevitable life shifts, and Karen sees herself as a willing guide and collaborator in your journey to confidence and wisdom.

Her training in EMDR, DBT, Somatics, Trauma-Focused CBT, Mindfulness Meditation and Attachment Theory combined with her Existential and Transpersonal stance create a light and warm space to explore themes and ideas to help clients make new meaning and gain insight into their lives. Resilience and Possibility are recurring themes in sessions, and conversations lead to uncovering pathways to remembering a client’s inner wisdom. All the training in the world can’t make a “good” therapist, though. It is about being in the room fully with a client and through presence and kindness, help them make sense of life in a way that frees them from painful emotional tangles.

Karen often brings humor and ideas from what she is reading and podcasts she is listening to to the session in order to bring light to challenging topics. She will also allow space and quiet when needed, and will play, question and interact with clients when it is the right time. She is not one of those “sit back and just listen” types of therapists, but one of those, “Have you ever considered..?” types of therapists.

Karen holds the goal for clients to eventually not need therapy, and will work hard to help her clients make actual, long-lasting changes and powerful transformations in their lives.

“Our real brilliance is more often in all the ways we learn to ask for help from others: in order to bring our internal conversation to fruition in the outer world. Asking for help, and especially from unexpected quarters and from unexpected people, has a whole wild and radical quality in itself. Asking for help opens us to a proper experience of radical wildness, it asks us to get over ourselves while explaining ourselves at a deeper and more elemental level.”

~David Whyte