About Karen

Background

I knew from an early age that I wanted to work with people. When I discovered there was a whole field devoted to understanding the human psyche, it settled the ‘what do you want to be when you grow up’ question. I became a Clinical Psychologist.

In the last thirty-odd years, I have run my own practice, part-time at first, switching to full time private practice back in 2001. I have worked with all kinds of people from every walk of life, bringing all kinds of problems, major and transient. I have worked in public settings, in a prison facility, Community & Family Services, with street kids, in sexual health clinics, in psychiatric outpatient clinic and university settings. I’ve taken a spell or two in the ‘patient’ chair as well, including a required training analysis, twice a week for the duration of a 4-year post graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.