Karen Foran (Online Only)

Qualifications

PhD Candidate Counselling & Psychotherapy
M.Sc. Counselling & Psychotherapy
M.Sc. Forensic Psychology
Bachelors Behavioural Science (Psychology)
PG Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
EMDR PG Training

Profile

Karen is a fully accredited psychotherapist with a wide range of experience working with difficulties such as trauma, anxiety, workplace stress & interpersonal abuse. Karen’s approach is both humanistic and integrative, with EMDR as her main modality. Karen’s speciality is working with trauma, specifically childhood and sexual trauma. Karen has additional speciality training working with neurodivergence and EMDR. Karen has both lived and professional experience of neurodivergence and aims to offer a neuro affirming practice.
Karen’s experience working with trauma was gained from working within a specialist NHS service for sexual assault, as both a crisis worker and senior counsellor, while living in the UK. This role also included training police officers in trauma responses of sexual assault survivors. Additionally within the NHS, Karen worked in community mental health as a psychological therapist working with a range of mental health presentations. Karen also has experience working with a charities both as a clinical supervisor and psychotherapist who offer counselling to childhood and sexual assault survivors.
Karen describes herself as a consistent learner with a curiosity of human behaviour which led her to pursue a PhD in the area of sex trafficking, having gained experience of working with this this client group while living in the UK. Karen is now working towards the end of her research and will submit December 2025.
Living back in her hometown of Dublin, Karen is a firm believer that having some knowledge and perspective on why we feel the way we do can be very powerful in the healing process. Karen will endeavour to help and support you gain some clarity with how and why you are feeling the way you are, and work collaboratively with you to guide you through the therapeutic process.

Approaches
EMDR, Humanistic & Integrative

Karen has experience with
Sexual Trauma
Childhood Abuse
Domestic Abuse
Bullying & Interpersonal Trauma
Traumatic Grief
Phobias
Health Anxiety
Workplace stress

Fee €80