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Psychotherapist

Karen has worked for over 20 years as a psychotherapist. She has extensive experience providing services to children, adolescents, and adults with severe and complex mental health difficulties. Karen specialises in mood management, dealing with trauma, anxiety, management of loss and grief, eating disorders and relationship issues.
Her warmth and relational approach to therapy mirror a deep respect for people and the unique life challenges faced by her clients. She enjoys working with parents and caregivers around communication, and attachment related challenges related to their young person.
Based on need, her therapeutic approach is tailored toward the individual.

Karen is also specialised in working with adolescents and adults who have eating disorders. She has worked across public and private sectors in both inpatient and outpatient settings, with previous positions held at Alma Street Centre, Fremantle Hospital. Karen is a current ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder clinician and was a longstanding staff member of Perth Children’s Hospital under the Eating Disorders Service.

She works across the spectrum from disordered eating to severe and enduring anorexia nervosa; bulimia and binge eating disorders.

Karen prefers a psychodynamic and family systems orientation, though is trained in a diverse range of therapeutic modalities and styles. Treatment approaches include FBT, CBT-E, family of origin and interpersonal individual therapy work. Karen’s original training as an Occupational Therapist enables a holistic lens when considering the needs of her clients.