Karen Meikle
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Status: Unavailable to accept new referrals
Location: Bethlehem Phone: 022 170 9579 Click here to send Karen an email Professional Body Registration: NZCCA and DAPAANZ |
Qualifications
Experience
About Me:
My interest in people and the counselling profession began when I was teenager, and I began my training as soon as I was old enough to be accepted into a counselling program!
I thoroughly enjoy meeting people, getting to know them, and supporting them to grow through the challenges that they face. To me people are truly valuable, and it is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to support people through challenges and to celebrate personal growth and successes.
Previously, I have had the honour of supporting people aged 5 and over therapeutically in several settings including: Schools, Kaupapa Mental Health Services, Drug and Alcohol Residential Rehabilitation, Drug and Alcohol Community services, and Grief services.
Modalities:
Client – Centred: The client centred approach places you in the pilot’s seat and the counsellor as the co-pilot. You are plotting the course of where you will go and my role is to support you in this journey. You are recognised as the expert of your own life with skills and strengths that have sustained you so far.
Ways I work within the Client – Centred approach:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: CBT provides us a framework to explore the interaction of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Through the use of CBT you can consider which beliefs and thoughts are sustaining you and which are hindering you. You will be offered tools to change unhelpful or untrue beliefs and thoughts as well as strategies for behaviours that may reinforce these beliefs/thoughts. Throughout this process we monitor feelings as they can provide us insight into what is working and not working for you.
Playful approaches: Just as talking provides a great avenue for exploration and processing so too does play and art. Play and art also provide the opportunity to express and explore the parts of ourselves and our experiences that we may not have the words for. Play and art can also enable us to come to creative solutions. In keeping with my client centred approach, we will only use playful approaches if that is something you are open to.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: It is not uncommon for couples to get into unhelpful patterns of relating to one another that makes it difficult for couples to connect to one another. This model enables us to explore the cycle of the relationship, underlying emotions, and unmet needs that trigger the unhelpful patterns. Within this framework we focus on our own reactions, triggers, feelings, behaviours and how these effect the relationship.
Mindfulness: Mindfulness supports us through developing practices and techniques that enable us to be fully present, regulate emotions and calm our fight/flight/freeze responses.
Areas Of Work:
I have experience with supporting people experiencing a various challenges including but not limited to:
- Post Graduate Cert in Health Science specialising in Addiction
- Bachelor of Counselling
- Level 6 Certificate in Social Service Work in Suicide Intervention
Experience
- Schools, Kaupapa Mental Health Services,
- Drug and Alcohol Residential Rehabilitation,
- Drug and Alcohol Community services,
- Grief support services.
About Me:
My interest in people and the counselling profession began when I was teenager, and I began my training as soon as I was old enough to be accepted into a counselling program!
I thoroughly enjoy meeting people, getting to know them, and supporting them to grow through the challenges that they face. To me people are truly valuable, and it is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to support people through challenges and to celebrate personal growth and successes.
Previously, I have had the honour of supporting people aged 5 and over therapeutically in several settings including: Schools, Kaupapa Mental Health Services, Drug and Alcohol Residential Rehabilitation, Drug and Alcohol Community services, and Grief services.
Modalities:
Client – Centred: The client centred approach places you in the pilot’s seat and the counsellor as the co-pilot. You are plotting the course of where you will go and my role is to support you in this journey. You are recognised as the expert of your own life with skills and strengths that have sustained you so far.
Ways I work within the Client – Centred approach:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: CBT provides us a framework to explore the interaction of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Through the use of CBT you can consider which beliefs and thoughts are sustaining you and which are hindering you. You will be offered tools to change unhelpful or untrue beliefs and thoughts as well as strategies for behaviours that may reinforce these beliefs/thoughts. Throughout this process we monitor feelings as they can provide us insight into what is working and not working for you.
Playful approaches: Just as talking provides a great avenue for exploration and processing so too does play and art. Play and art also provide the opportunity to express and explore the parts of ourselves and our experiences that we may not have the words for. Play and art can also enable us to come to creative solutions. In keeping with my client centred approach, we will only use playful approaches if that is something you are open to.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: It is not uncommon for couples to get into unhelpful patterns of relating to one another that makes it difficult for couples to connect to one another. This model enables us to explore the cycle of the relationship, underlying emotions, and unmet needs that trigger the unhelpful patterns. Within this framework we focus on our own reactions, triggers, feelings, behaviours and how these effect the relationship.
Mindfulness: Mindfulness supports us through developing practices and techniques that enable us to be fully present, regulate emotions and calm our fight/flight/freeze responses.
Areas Of Work:
I have experience with supporting people experiencing a various challenges including but not limited to:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Substance Addiction
- Emotional Regulation
- Long Term Health issues
- Grief and Loss
- Trauma and PTSD
- Life transitions
- Relationship challenges
- Children, Young People and Adults
