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About Karen

Karen Taylor is a highly qualified, experienced and effective therapist.

Karen has been a trained and practising therapist since 1994. She is registered as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). She is a full member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). She is a licensed hypnotherapist and a member of The Hypnotherapy Association.

Qualifications

Karen first qualified as a counsellor and hypnotherapist through the Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Training Association (PHTA). The counselling element was Cognitive Behavioural. She was then examined and licensed as a hypnotherapist by the National Council for Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy.

Karen then trained and qualified in Adlerian counselling through the Adlerian Society of the United Kingdom and the Institute for Individual Psychology (A.S.I.I.P).

Next, Karen took a Masters degree in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy through Sheffield University.

Following this, Karen trained and qualified with the Post-Adoption Centre as an Adoption Counsellor. She is currently applying for registration with OFSTED as a small Adoption Support Agency (ASA).

Karen has since trained in Systemic Therapy under the auspices of AFT (the Association for Family Therapy).

Karen has also had training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), through the EMDR Institute, created by Francine Shapiro PhD, and is qualified to use it in the treatment of trauma.