Registered Therapy and Counselling Practice in Southgate, North London and Online
A confidential space to explore the thoughts, feelings and challenges in your life
Welcome to Karen Taylor’s Registered Therapy and Counselling Practice
Karen is a fully trained and practising therapist with over thirty years of experience. She is a registered member of UKCP (her accreditting body) and an accreditted fertility counsellor AMBICA (IP). She is also a highly trained and experienced couples therapist and family counsellor.
Karen draws upon various therapeutic modalities, and tailors therapy to your individual needs.
Karen offers short and long-term therapy; both in person and online via Zoom. She works with adults of all ages, students, couples, and families.
Issues Karen Works With
Karen specialises in relationship difficulties of all kinds; more recently, including the impact of Social Media (with individuals as well as with couples and families). She also works with clients experiencing:
Feelings of low self-worth
Infertility
Bullying
Trauma
Bereavement and Loss of all kinds (and anticipated loss)
Autism-related difficulties
ADHD-related difficulties
Emotional difficulties whilst trying to study
Anxiety; including panic attacks, phobias and intrusive thoughts.
Depression
Stress at work
Anger
Dilemmas
Feeling lost in the world
Searching for identity
Location
Karen works from her home in Southgate, North London; within easy reach of Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Oakwood, Cockfosters, Potters Bar and Enfield. She is 10-minutes' walk from Southgate Underground Station, on the Piccadilly Line.
Get in touch
To book an appointment with Karen, call 0208 368 0309. If she is unable to answer, feel free to leave a message. She will come back to you as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can email her on karen@registeredtherapist.co.uk
If you would like to speak to Karen; either to ask her some initial questions, or to get a better sense of her, before booking a session; Karen is happy to arrange a time to have a 15-minute free chat on the telephone.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy helps to resolve deep, painful and lasting emotional issues by talking to, and receiving feedback from, an empathic and suitably trained professional.
What is the difference between Psychotherapy and Counselling?
Counselling helps to deal with difficult thoughts and feelings that occur in response to recent or current events. Like psychotherapy, this is conducted through talking to, and receiving feedback from, an empathic and suitably trained professional. If painful and lasting emotional issues emerge during the counselling, the process could turn into psychotherapy.
How many Psychotherapy/Counselling sessions will I need?
With each person, the number of sessions is different. If you have been grappling with (or trying not to be aware of) difficult thoughts and feelings, you will need to work through them at a pace which is right for you. Long-term issues take longer to resolve than short-term issues, so psychotherapy takes longer than counselling.
Are online sessions as effective as in-person-sessions?
Karen finds that many people choose to have in-person sessions because they like sensing Karen’s nearby presence. Some find it easier to concentrate on their therapy, when in the room with Karen. They may choose, intermittently, to have sessions online—for convenience, because they are feeling under the weather or due to other obligations. They do this in the knowledge that, because their relationship with Karen is strong, their online sessions are just as useful.
Other people might be working or living some distance away from Karen; or may have heavy outside obligations, judge that Karen is the right therapist for them; and feel quite happy to have all their sessions online. Karen has built up considerable experience working as effectively online as she does in person.
We want to access couples counselling, can we do this online?
Yes. Karen does work online with families, if the family decides that online sessions will best suit their circumstances. Sometimes, partners have heavy outside commitments or/and can find themselves in different locations. That said, it is best if the couple are in the same space together much of the time, because the physical closeness can help to create emotional closeness. Couples who are seeking to improve their ability to cooperate (for example to best look after children) after a separation or divorce, can be in separate locations all the time.
We want to access family therapy can we do this online?
Yes, Karen does work online with families; if the family decides that online sessions will best suit their circumstances.
How do you measure how effective the therapy is?
Karen regularly reviews, with you, whether you are finding the sessions helpful, and how far you have progressed. She will work with you towards feeling you have gained, or regained, your own sense of emotional ease, and where appropriate, the closeness and comfort you want in your relationship.
Is counselling confidential?
Yes, your sessions are confidential. Measures are in place to protect your personal data, in accordance with GDPR. Please note, however, that under certain circumstances, Karen has an ethical and statutory obligation to share, with necessary organisations, if she believes you are at serious risk of harm to yourself or others. More information on breaks in confidentiality is outlined in the counselling contract.