Karen Doherty​

Karen Doherty is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with more than 30 years of experience. She has extensive experience working wholistically and systemically with people from a wide range of cultures and identities, towards maximum health, wellbeing and happiness.

Karen is committed to lifelong learning and development, is trained in many therapeutic modalities and is able to adapt therapy to meet the needs of individuals. Karen has a particular interest in working with women who have experienced anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss and relationship and attachment issues. She works with clients who are struggling with relationships, work, parenting and interpersonal issues.

Karen uses a variety of evidence based approaches in her work with clients who have symptoms of trauma, anxiety and depression including psychotherapy techniques and is a trained RO DBT therapist. Her professional development and practice is framed around the impact of early experiences on the brain, on the life course and on future steps toward wellness.

Karen is trained in a wide range of modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy , Radically Open DBT, Somatic therapy and other trauma informed approaches.

Karen offers clinical supervision to a wide range of professionals including Social Workers, Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists, Case Workers, Nurses and Lawyers. She has worked in a range of public sector services including NSW Health Sexual Assault Services, The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Registered Witness Intermediary and has worked on a Redress Panel.

Karen has worked in private practice for the past 8 years and is a founding member of Lilly Pilly Counselling Inc. Karen is a founding partner of South Sydney Psychology and Trauma Recovery Service based in Sutherland.

She has a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work from Sydney University.

As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, she is able to see people who have been referred by their GP under Better Access so they can receive a Medicare rebate.

You can find out more about Karen at the SSPTS website here.