Karen Potter
Psychotherapy & Mentoring
Lismore, NSW
Perinatal & Parent Counselling
For those in the stages of thinking about having a baby through to early parenting of infants and toddlers:
- Fertility issues
- Anxiety or depression during pregnancy
- Pregnancy or infant loss
- Problems during birth
- Depression or anxiety after giving birth
- Issues with infants sleeping, feeding, or settling
- Infant attachment issues
- Change in family dynamics
- Behavioural concerns in toddlers
Many of the above are common during the journey to and through early parenthood. Therefore, the support of a perinatal specialist can help better understand these issues. Importantly, you will develop understanding, skills and capacities to work through these issues and enjoy your family life even more.
In addition, Karen works with parents of children and teenagers, providing developmental information and education, support, guidance and strategies.
Grief and Bereavement Counselling
Bereavement refers to the experience of mourning following the death of someone important and/or close to us in life.
Grief describes the response people have to loss. It is part of bereavement, but can also be experienced after a loss of someone or something that has been important to us, including: divorce/separation, not having children, living in exile from our home country, losing our homes, retirement/retrenchment, loss of a pet, personal illness/injury, etc.
Grief can also be a more complex or conflictual experience. It includes sorrow, mourning and/or sadness but can also a range of other emotions such as: anger, fear, panic, shame, relief or disbelief.
End of Life/Death Doula
End of Life or Death Doula work typically involves meeting with the dying person and/or the family in the home.
Guidance, support, counselling and companionship are offered to the dying person and/or their family as they journey through the process. It is a non-medical service to provide information and an opportunity to talk with someone about anything, about death, family issues, whatever is needed. Any relevant forms that might needed can be organised, discussed and assistance to complete.
If you have questions about end of life care or death doula work, please Contact Karen to find out more.
Mentoring
The mentoring relationship is an extremely rewarding experience. It is a one-on-one opportunity for learning, encouragement, support, guidance and development in any or all areas of one’s life.
The process explores and clarifies who and where you are now in life and who/where you want to be and identifies how to get there. It could be about life in general, in work, and/or relationships.
Supervision
Karen offers supervision for anyone seeking support, guidance and/or processing around their work with clients. Supervision helps to further develop knowledge and understanding of issues that arise for clients. It can expand and deepen the understanding of the relational issues that can arise between practitioners and clients. In addition, supervision builds greater capacity and offers skills and tools to manage all the various issues that can arise.