My work with clients integrates training and wisdom from Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Somatic and Transpersonal orientations.  What this means for you is that the past is brought into the present as I invite you to:

• Re-open parts of the Self that have shut down due to wounding, trauma, pain, loss, anger, and aversions to suffering
• Re-claim personal power and peace by discovering where and how you can be at choice in your life
• Re-accept the risks of authenticity
• Re-discover your spark of aliveness and joy

What this looks like during sessions is a reverence for mystery, synchronicity and paradox.  What this feels like during sessions is patience, empathy, curiosity, listening, presence and a trust in your inner wisdom.

A favorite teacher of mine once declared that Psychotherapy should be more accurately named Psychetherapy.   I like this.  It is a conversation with the soul.  It is becoming more of who we are. It is an invitation to become whole again and recover the memory of what part of our real value was lost.  It is a dance between the conscious and unconscious. It is cultivating the capacity and resilience to be with all of ourselves and stay awake in this life.  It is an opportunity to heal, grow and experience inner peace.

Karen earned an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral  Studies, an MBA from Moravian College and a BS from The Pennsylvania State University.  Additionally, she has received training from the Hakomi Institute, the Center for Attitudinal Healing, Diamond Approach and teachers including Sandra Maitri, Angeles Arrien and Marion Rosen. 

Karen has facilitated support groups for chronic illness, family loss, spousal/partner bereavement and resiliency programs for middle school students. She regularly recalibrates her spirit in relationship with her three daughters and one impish dog as well as through gardening, hiking, writing, kayaking, Vipassana Meditation and Hatha Yoga practices. 

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