My Approach

Who Can I Help
I am an integrative, relational psychotherapist working with individuals and adult relationships. This includes couples, adult family members, polycules, and other consensual non-monogamous or non-traditional relationship structures. I offer a confidential and reflective therapeutic space in which emotional, psychological, and relational difficulties can be explored with care, depth, and curiosity.
People come to psychotherapy for many reasons. Some are responding to a particular life event, such as trauma, bereavement, relationship rupture, or significant transition. Others seek support with longer-standing patterns of emotional distress, relational difficulties, or questions of identity, meaning, and self-worth. I work with present-day concerns while also attending to the wider relational and developmental contexts in which these difficulties have emerged.

Longer-Term Psychotherapy
My practice is primarily oriented towards longer-term psychotherapy, allowing sufficient time to explore emotional experience, patterns of relating, and internal processes in depth. This work often involves attending to how early attachment relationships and past experiences continue to shape present-day feelings, behaviours, and relationships.
While the focus remains grounded in the here and now, psychotherapy may include careful and respectful exploration of earlier experiences where this is therapeutically meaningful. Over time, longer-term work can support increased self-understanding, emotional integration, relational change, and a greater sense of agency and coherence.

Adult Relationship Psychotherapy (Imago-Informed)
In my work with adult relationships, including couples, families, and polycules, I draw on Imago-informed psychotherapy alongside my integrative and relational training. This approach understands relational distress as emerging from often unconscious patterns shaped by early attachment experiences, which can become activated within close adult relationships.
Rather than focusing solely on conflict management, the work aims to support greater emotional awareness, mutual recognition, and relational safety. I work with those who wish to understand and shift recurring relational patterns, deepen connection, or develop more conscious and intentional ways of relating to one another.

How I Work
My practice is grounded in a humanistic and relational psychotherapy framework. I integrate theory, clinical experience, and ongoing reflective practice to shape a therapeutic approach that is responsive to each individual or relationship. Assessment and formulation are ongoing processes, allowing the work to develop in an ethically attuned and clinically appropriate way.
Where appropriate, I may integrate EMDR within a longer-term relational psychotherapy framework, particularly when working with trauma or distress linked to past experiences.
Central to my approach is the therapeutic relationship itself, which I understand as fundamental to psychological and relational change. I aim to offer a thoughtful, containing, and respectful therapeutic space, working with openness, integrity, and professional care.

About Me

Hello, I’m Karen and I’m a Psychotherapist and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. I aim to offer a therapeutic space that feels warm, thoughtful, and non-judgemental, where people can explore what has brought them to therapy at their own pace.
I work with adults and couples/relationships and support clients with difficulties such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and relational challenges. I have a particular interest in working with people who have experienced sexual violence or abuse, and with those affected by childhood or developmental trauma. I am an LGBTQ+ ally and have experience of working with neurodivergent clients.
My practice is based in a fully accessible setting in Newark, close to the A1 with free parking, and I also work from a second location in Grantham. Sessions are available both in person and online.
I believe deeply in the value of therapy as a space for reflection, understanding, and change, and I feel privileged to support people as they work towards living with greater ease and self-compassion.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Groups
• Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Adult Psychotherapist
• Psychotherapeutic Counsellor