| Works with: | Individuals |
| Sessions: | Face-to-face, Online, Telephone |
| Languages: | English |
| Fees: | £70 |
| Location: | Tooting |
Karlene Golding
Karlene Golding completed foundation certificates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (former London Centre for Psychotherapy) and Analytical Psychology (The Society of Analytical Psychology), and subsequently completed stages 1 and 2 of a 3 stage Diploma in Transpersonal Integrative Counselling at Re-Vision (integrating concepts from Jungian, Gestalt, relational, psychodynamic, neuroscience, body psychotherapy and family systems theory). She went on to complete a Practitioner Certificate in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes at Metanoia Institute, and later qualified as a therapist, having completed a Diploma in Integrative Counselling at The Awareness Centre. Karlene has worked as a counsellor within the Low-Cost Counselling Service in Bromley and at The Awareness Centre. She has also worked for the NHS IAPT service. She currently sees clients within her private practice at The Awareness Centre in Tooting.
Karlene believes therapy can help people find acceptance of themselves, even when some parts feel tough to acknowledge. She has worked with clients experiencing difficulties including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, shame and guilt, and relationship issues. She can offer a space that may feel safe enough to begin exploring painful emotions and experiences. Karlene sees therapy as a potentially meaningful journey of self-discovery, as well as a support for people who are experiencing difficulties in their life.
Karlene works in an integrative way that draws upon different therapeutic models, depending on the individual needs of her clients. She offers a space for clients to bring what feels most important for them. Whilst talking can be very helpful, Karlene also recognises the importance of silence in therapy. She believes that mediums other than verbal communication, such as writing, use of imagery and even movement can also be helpful for some people.
I was going through a troubling time after the epidemic and the lockdowns, which I had found very hard. I started seeing Karlene hoping to deal with the troubles that were at the “surface” level of my day to day thinking.
Karlene was calm, kind, non-judgemental but most of all an extremely skilled therapist. It turns out that the troubles that were at the “top level” of my brain were that – only the surface. I hadn’t been able to see this for myself, but Karlene very carefully and gently helped me to unpick this. There were layers to my issues, going back decades, which we began to peel back. I came to an understanding of certain events that had taken place in the past that were colouring my experience of the present.
Having this understanding is hugely helpful – I now have the ability to watch my own thought processes and understand when they are going down certain avenues coloured by past experiences, and to redirect where necessary.
I cannot recommend Karlene enough. Sometimes it is simply not possible to see beyond our own day to day thinking patterns, to begin to understand why we experience life or certain situations the way we do, without the help of a skilled “other”. For me, Karlene was exactly what I needed at that point in time, and I cannot thank her enough.
