Karen Potter
Psychotherapy
Camberwell, Vic
About Karen Potter
Karen is deeply committed to exploring and understanding the deeper layers to people in order to develop greater awareness and understanding about where behaviours, emotions and thinking patterns arise. From there, appropriate strategies, practices and tools to work through and change are developed.
Karen is highly skilled and experienced in trauma, including perinatal (ante-natal, birth and post-natal), childhood abuse and adult.
Karen currently works part-time in her private practice and offers in-person and telehealth options.
Main areas of focus
Through three decades of experience and training, Karen has come to focus on specific areas:
- Perinatal – from the idea of a baby, to conceiving (or not), through pregnancy, birthing and post-natal.
- Parenting – of children and adolescents, including bonding and attachment concerns and the couple relationship
- Individuals and relationships – short and long-term counselling and psychotherapy around a range of issues, as well as life transitions, including end of life.
- Mentoring – with individuals to understand where they are at now, and where, and who, they want to become. Is more practical and coaching focused.
- Clinical Supervision – with practitioners in private practice as well as within organisations. She also offers consultancy services to organisations.
Background
Karen’s career as a counsellor/psychotherapist began in the late 1990’s and has been in various settings including the Northern Centre Against Sexual Assault; Royal Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive and Special Care Nurseries & Maternity Wards; Melbourne IVF; the Centre Against Sexual Assault; Dandenong Hospital (including ICU, Maternity and Birth Suite and general medicine); as well as in private practice.
Within these settings and through the course of almost 30 years as a therapist, Karen has worked extensively with people who have been diagnosed with or are exploring a diagnosis of a range of mental health and/or personality issues, including anxiety, depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, addictive behaviours, eating disorders.
Throughout her extensive career, Karen has maintained a solid commitment to professional development as well as personal development and spiritual path.
Qualifications & Professional Memberships
Karen has a range of Qualifications and Memberships that you can view here.
