I run a sole practice. My name is Karen Kennedy. I have over thirty years of clinical experience behind me. I have also appeared on 2GB’s Healthy Living Program, Channel 7’s Today Tonight, and in two major print magazines. I was the first therapist working in Camden.
In an increasingly commodotized mental health world, it is important to know that this practice is not run by a third party corporation nor does it use AI therapists. It provides the personal, professional, client-centred approach that a privately run, privately owned practice can provide.
My qualifications are-
BSocSc. GradDipCouns. Dip. Relationship Counselling.
I also continue to keep my skills current with ongoing education in very specific courses that I know enhance my work, both with couples and with individuals, with emphasis on relational issues, including intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship counselling, sex therapy, and helping heal after infidelity.
Recent and ongoing training I have undertaken includes-
RLI – I am an RLT trained couples therapist – levels 1,2,3. RLT is an extremely powerful and practical therapy that gets to the core of relational issues and also helps bring couples into repair.
The Couples Institute – I am a Developmental Model trained relationship therapist.
TIST: Trauma Informed Stabilisation Therapy Level 1 – Dr Janina Fisher
The Relational Brain: The Neurobiology of Relational Life Therapy & How it Works to Rewire Your Brain – Terry Real and Jules Taylor Shore (2022)
Working With Infidelity – The Relational Life Institute
Secret Sexual Lives and Betrayal Trauma: Repairing the Most Damaging Wounds to Intimacy – Gary Katz and Jennifer Acker
The Institute for Relational Intimacy‘s Assessing and Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy (ATSIP), including the 2020 and 2021 training courses
Male Sexuality: Implications for Therapy with Men, Women and Couples – Dr Joe Kort
Working With Unhealthy Self-Esteem in Men – Terry Real
The Embodied Therapist: 4 Superpowers to Dissolve Shame – Deidre Fay
Integrating Experiential Therapies – Dr Tori Olds
Mental Health Arcade’s 2020 and 2024 Mental Health Super Summit
Neurobiology with Heart – Juliane Taylor Shore, Academy of Wisdom Therapy,
The Neurobiology of Feeling Safe: Working with Boundaries Inside and Out: Level 1 & Level 2 – Jules Taylor Shore
Conscious Loving (Mindfulness) – Tara Brach
I am also a Positive Psychology trained Mindfulness practitioner. I utilise Mindfulness and CBT together as a therapeutic tool for couples as well as individuals.
**I do not work with Domestic Violence couples**
If you need assistance please contact : RESPECT: 1800 737 732
Or MensLine: 1300 787 978
Lifeline available 24/07: 13 11 14
Late sessions available Mon-Thurs at 6.30pm. Friday at 5.30pm.
**Please note that most sessions are currently (September 2024) via ZOOM. However, there are some face-to-face sessions made available for current practice clients. Please feel free to call me if you would like clarification or to know more about my sessions. Although this can change, I am generally available between 10.15am-10.45 and then 3pm-4pm Monday-Friday for a brief chat on 0416 665 165
However, because I am busy it can be hard to get me when you ring. If you leave a voicemail, I will call you back when I am free.
My email is below. I don’t respond to texts from people who are not practice clients.
email: macarthurrelationships@gmail.com