Qualifications:
Masters of Counselling,
Graduate Certificate in Counselling,
BA, Communications & Psychology
ICF Certified Coach (ACC)
Memberships:
HKPCA, HKSCP, ICF, PSHK
About Karen:
Counsellor, Coach
Karen is a registered counsellor and certified coach, with over 20 years in global financial and professional services firms where she held various executive and leadership roles. Her practice focuses on supporting clients with emotional difficulties and life challenges, and guiding them toward self-discovery, personal development and goal attainment. Depending on individual specific needs and goals, Karen uses her counselling and coaching skills to enhance support for her clients.
In her counselling work, Karen takes a person-centered, strengths-based approach and uses evidence-based therapeutic practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She collaborates with clients to discover underlying issues, find solutions to their problems, and develop effective coping skills such as mindfulness meditation, relaxation and physical activity, to help them moderate or withstand pressures and conflict in their lives. Karen works with children, adolescents and adults across a range of issues including anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, bereavement, self-harm, anger issues, body image issues, reduced self-esteem and relationship challenges.
As a coach, Karen supports clients in charting a new or different path to make transformational change and achieve specific goals. Her coaching clients include those who experience feelings of being ‘stuck’ and demotivation, who face significant life change, such as loss of employment, a career change or a relationship breakup, and who wish to improve their work-life balance, health and general outlook to life. She is experienced working with professional services firms, helping people in high-pressure environments apply evidence-based strategies to mitigate workplace anxiety and burnout, and optimize performance and well-being.
Karen provides counselling and coaching in-person and online and works in English and Mandarin.
