Karen Woodley - Psychotherapist

Hello

I’m Karen

I am delighted that you have found me and are considering taking that first step to get the help you need. Here is a little about me and the way I work. I am highly trained and passionate about mental health, offering therapy tailored to each unique person. My approach is compassionate and rooted in the belief that meaningful change is possible when people feel seen, accepted entirely, and empowered.

A bit about my work

As a Movement Psychotherapist, I know that more profound and powerful change happens when we bring our bodies into our therapy journey. Coming home to the body, the words of the body, the vibration of the body, the silence of the body; the micro-movements of the body, the needs of the body; the body-self is vital to our health and well-being.

Having also trained in Person-Centred Counselling and Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, my work is rooted in the Humanistic approach to therapy, which recognises your full potential as a human being and helps you reach it! It embraces everything that makes you who you are and focuses on your uniqueness and your relationship with yourself, others, and the world.

As a Trauma-Informed Psychotherapist, I believe that even if you feel parts of you are broken, you can find your pathway to healing one step at a time.

Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapeutic approach that helps explain the complex voices we all hear and act out:

  • The Parent Ego State represents the beliefs that we inherit from our families and culture. The behaviours, thoughts and feelings that parents, parental figures or significant others have introjected.

  • The Adult Ego State is the behaviours, thoughts, and feelings that directly respond to the here and now, and this Ego State is fluid, full of energy, and open to growth.

  • The Child Ego State represents how we have reacted to these beliefs and the situations we have been through, such as traumatic experiences and unmet needs and how we have adapted.

With curiosity, compassion, and sensitivity to the body-mind-heart connection, I welcome you to my practice.

Karen

I am a UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) registered Psychotherapist. A member of the United Kingdom Association of Transactional Analysis (UKATA), the European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA), the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).

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Qualifications

My Qualifications are

    • Master of Arts in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (MA)
    • Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist (TA) Level 7
    • Clinical Counselling Supervisor (NCPS) 
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My ongoing Professional Development Training includes

  • TA 101 – TACymru
  • Tending to trauma and the trauma pathway-BdT Trauma Recovery Training & Consultancy
  • Certificate in working with trauma- Becoming Ubuntu
  • Working with the Traumatised Inner Child (C-PTSD)- Becoming Ubuntu
  • Couples Counselling – Gloucestershire Counselling Service
  • Eco-Therapy’ working without walls’-TACymru
  • Child Sexual Abuse and how to work with Survivors- NCPS
  • Working with the dynamics of shame- Carolyn Spring
  • Working with survivors of Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse
  • Working with grief and Loss
  • Energy psychology training
  • Internal Family systems
  • Family Constellations
  • Mental Health Familiarisation training