WELCOME TO THE TEAM

I am a senior psychotherapist with extensive experience. 

I hold a small face to face private practice here, where I offer a warm, reflective space for depth psychotherapy where we can work together to address any or all of the issues in your life that are calling out for attention.

I offer you the focused mindfulness, skills and understanding I have developed over three decades of clinical practice and teaching psychotherapy. 

I also offer online sessions as well as professional supervsion, creativity coaching and more - you can find out more about me by clicking on the button below:

Counselling with me will be a safe place for you to explore how you are feeling right now, gain clarity about what has brought you to this point and decide what you’d like to do differently moving forwards. 

From the outset during our assessment and throughout our work together the focus will be on your unique needs and the outcome you would like to achieve. My aim will be to put you at ease so you feel about to talk freely and enjoy a positive, rewarding counselling experience. Everything is welcome in our sessions and we will balance the difficult conversations with lighter moments. I will support you to create the mindset and conditions that will make you flourish.  

However long we work together, we will make sure we check in on a regular basis with your goals. This allows us to review our progress, check that the goal(s) is still correct or whether it needs updating and also discuss how we are working together and if there is anything you would like to change. I have found that lasting results usually come from making holistic changes. This means we will explore different aspects of your life, not just focus on how you think and feel. 

It takes courage to reach out for counselling, so it's important you have all the information you need about what to expect. If you have any questions or you would like to make a time for an initial assessment, please do get in touch on 07341 162825 or via hello@karentoms.com.

If you are reading this, I expect you are seeking help and support with something. 

Maybe you are wanting help finding answers, guidance or some direction in your life. I understand that reaching out can be scary, especially if you have never had counselling before or don’t know where to start so well done on taking that first step.

I believe that you have within you all you need to thrive but sometimes finding answers you need to make changes can be difficult if you do not know where to look, so together we will move at a pace that you are comfortable with and begin to explore what has brought you to counselling and what you hope to achieve during our time together.

Using an integrative approach, I can help you to navigate life’s challenges, make sense of events and begin to build healthy strategies to best support your wants and needs throughout our time together and beyond. I work holistically to help you gain clarity and understanding in the hope this will enable you to find the answers you seek. 

My approach includes working with metaphors, helping you understand how to regulate your breathing and your nervous system and guided imagery as well as exploring thought patterns and offering psychoeducation, these are just some of the ways my clients have been supported with issues including anxiety, depression, life altering medical diagnosis and those who have experienced complex trauma, domestic violence and sexual abuse.

My passion is to help people who feel stuck, and want to flourish in their lives. Maybe you feel stressed, or exhausted, or there is something missing or something in the way of you really knowing happiness. If you don’t know where to start, a good place to begin can be to find someone you feel safe with, so that you can open up and talk about the things that you may have always struggled to communicate. 

Therapy is unique as the focus will be on your priorities, your recovery, and your path to healing and creating a better life. Talking with someone who can hear clearly how you feel, can bring huge relief. I can help you to understand the impact of your life so far, and you can decide how you want to experience it going forward. 

• Create a path with heart and meaning 

• Find your voice, align with your true self 

• Focus on the important outcomes you most want for yourself. 

As well as talking therapy, I also work as a Craniosacral Therapist. This can be a powerful way to access feelings in the body which cannot be explained with words. It is unique in its ability to work with the source of symptoms on every level whether mental, physical or emotional and is a natural way of helping our bodies to rest and recover. 

A feeling that you have been deeply heard is a common experience during a Craniosacral session, which can result in the release of long held patterns and tensions. 

You can call or text me on: 07830 789058. I’d love to hear from you. 

Supporting people into a place of wholeness is a passion of mine. I have worked with people for 30 years in various face- to- face capacities and I’m still fascinated by the way we are all special, unique and wonderfully made. Having spent several years along the journey of self-discovery, growth and transformation, I now support others in exploring their own inner territory.  
 

Sometimes we get stuck. It might feel that something is missing? Often this can be as a result of a particular incident but other times we’ve forgotten some of who we are. Whatever the reason, I come alongside people to work together on whatever is in the way of them fulfilling their potential, moving forward and generally feeling more satisfied.

Relationship is fundamental to my work and at the heart of everything I do. Essentially, I am inviting you to connect with me in a relationship where we will explore difficult areas that may be preventing your personal growth or holding you back in some way. I work with adults and young adults (17 -25) as an integrative counsellor. This means that I draw on a variety of learned and intuitive ways to support your self-inquiry. My work is to come alongside you and use my skills and unique insight with what you bring consciously and subconsciously to enable you to find your own answers.

For many, seeking therapy can be a difficult thing to consider and be uncomfortable in many ways. The positive aspect is, this is the start of where growth and change can begin.

These changes and growth can be in many forms from gaining understanding, awareness, behaviour, direction, solutions, responsibility or gaining purpose and meaning in your life.

We all have the answers inside ourselves, though our life experiences and difficulties, it can be harder to access the answers by ourselves. I would feel privileged to support you in finding these answers for your own growth, direction and fulfilment in your life to become truly who you are.

I am a qualified integrative counsellor, which means I combine different approaches to counselling to help you attain awareness and understanding of yourself. Within this I integrate, CBT, Person Centred, Gestalt and Transpersonal ways to support you gain awareness, connection and alleviate difficulties you are experiencing.

I can accommodate either face to face or online sessions. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.