Personal Testimonials (Client names withheld to respect confidentiality)

“When I first started seeing Karen, I was incredibly dysregulated and felt like I couldn’t control my emotions following a traumatic experience. I also had deep attachment wounds and a lot of shame about how difficult it was for me to cope with what was happening. Karen really helped to create safety in the room, and over time I experienced enough healing that allowed me to move out of being overwhelmed and frequently shut-down. I started feeling more alive again - now, my body is no longer on hyper-alert, and I have more energy than I've had in years. I also have a sense of calm that I’ve never experienced before on an ongoing basis.

I highly recommend working with Karen, as she is compassionate, caring, and really helps to facilitate the healing process when it comes to trauma and people experiencing both distress and dissociation”. (Client age: 20’s)

“Thank you for giving me some very helpful concrete tools and helping me think more big-picture and across a longer time span about what might be going on behind the ever-present fatigue/suicidality/anxiety/isolation. The care and knowledge you provided in our time together is what made it possible for me to get a healthier job, properly look for and be able to afford a good psychiatrist, get off a good deal of unnecessary medication and onto the right ones, and ultimately be able to start addressing real underlying issues. Thirty-five years was enough of that, and I might still be on that track if we hadn't met.” (Client age: 40’s)

“My experience with Karen taught me how to pay attention and be still with my body, identify what it needs, and practice self-care with a sense of acceptance I didn’t know I had. Thank you for this invaluable teaching!” (Client age: 50’s)

“Karen has helped me find the pieces of the puzzle inside myself that I didn’t even know were missing. Within this discovery, I now live more in ease and with a greater capacity for joy.” (Client age: 50’s)

“This experience gave me the opportunity and, above all else, the right to give all of my body the movements and space it needed to allow my mind to relieve itself of the burden of my life. Liberating!” (Client age: 40’s)

“Thank you very, very much for all your help! I often remind myself to dance, play some music and increase my pleasure level in the activities I engage myself in. I observe my inner self and then remind myself of the many things I'm grateful for and how I'm lucky to be me. It helps alot to change my attitude.” (Client age: 30’s)

“The help I received from Karen completely changed my relationship with pain. As a chronic pain sufferer, years of treatments had done nothing to help it. Karen helped me address my body from a different angle, and using my mind I am now able to lessen my pain in the way only medications could previously help. I definitely owe her a debt of gratitude for her help!” (Client age: 30’s)

Professional Testimonials

“Karen brings integrity to her work and has proven herself to be adaptive and adept at providing trauma-informed care and creating stability, consistency, and connection for her clients. She consistently meets clients where they are, works with them collaboratively to understand what they’d like to change, and provides resources, skills, understanding, and empathy to help them follow through on their treatment goals. From my perspective, she has demonstrated considerable skill at working with vulnerable, distressed, disconnected, and dysregulated human beings.”

—Dr. Kate Drury, Psychologist, Trauma-Focused Therapy Program, Jewish General Hospital

“Karen is a qualified professional who knows how to create with her patients an optimal therapeutic alliance based on attentive listening and unconditional respect for their differences. She detects with acuity their non-verbal language to skillfully explore the universe of their most imperceptible body sensations.”

—Jérôme Wermeille, Psychotherapist, Homewood du Plateau

“Karen’s ability to combine her expertise, insights, compassion, and wisdom provides her clients the opportunity to move from a place of trauma and psychological pain to truly a place of healing—mind, body, and spirit.”

—Sue Tremblay, Mental Health Nurse, Homewood Health