Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Karen Garvin is an experienced, trauma-informed Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor working with adults. She creates a supportive, compassionate space where clients can explore their experiences, navigate challenges, reconnect with themselves, and move towards living with greater freedom, connection and joy.
Karen supports clients to explore the stories and experiences that have shaped them, and how these continue to influence their day-to-day lives. Past experiences can often show up in the present as anxiety, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, repeatedly choosing unhealthy relationships, or feeling unable to live in the way we truly want to.
Using a combination of body-based and somatic awareness, regulation exercises and therapeutic counselling approaches, Karen helps clients slow down and become more aware of how their experiences are held in both mind and body. Together, they can begin to understand patterns of response and reaction, gently interrupt cycles of hurt and pain, and discover new ways of relating to themselves and others.
Karen draws on Attachment and Developmental Theory, Internal Family Systems Therapy and Gestalt techniques to help clients understand how past experiences continue to influence their present lives. Through this process, clients can develop greater awareness, choice and self-compassion, enabling them to move forward in ways that feel more aligned with who they are and how they want to live.
Therapeutic Counselling Approach
Karen brings a deep understanding of relational dynamics to both her psychotherapy and supervision work. She works with clients in a collaborative and supportive way, recognising that each person’s experiences, needs and journey are unique.
In her private practice, Karen provides a safe space for clients to explore their experiences, navigate challenges and reconnect with themselves. Her approach is trauma-informed, compassionate and grounded in the belief that greater awareness of our patterns and responses can create the possibility for meaningful change.
Clinical Supervision
Karen brings a deep understanding of relational dynamics to both her psychotherapy and supervision work. She works with clients in a collaborative and supportive way, recognising that each person’s experiences, needs and journey are unique.
In her private practice, Karen provides a safe space for clients to explore their experiences, navigate challenges and reconnect with themselves. Her approach is trauma-informed, compassionate and grounded in the belief that greater awareness of our patterns and responses can create the possibility for meaningful change.
Psychotherapy Training & Accreditation
Karen holds a BA (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy and has completed the Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training. She also holds qualifications in Level 8 Mediation and Group Facilitation, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Clinical Supervision Across Professions.
Karen is accredited with and regulated by the Irish Association of Counselling Practitioners (IACP).
Karen’s fee is €80 per session
