Karen Marsh, PACFA

Karen Marsh is a counsellor based in Australia with 25 years of professional experience and PACFA credentials, offering long-term clinical work with individuals and families. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and complex family conflicts, and brings particular experience with trauma and abuse.

Karen combines a range of therapeutic tools to meet each person where they are, drawing on approaches such as Schema Therapy, the Flash Technique (FT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Memory Reconsolidation, hypnosis and other experiential therapies. She adapts her methods to suit the needs and preferences of each client, blending skills so that practical relief and longer-term change can develop together.

Karen works from the belief that each person is the expert in their own story and already carries strengths that can be used to overcome challenges. She aims to create a supportive space for people to explore patterns, process painful events and build new ways of relating to themselves and others. Taking the first step towards a more fulfilling life often requires courage - Karen’s practice focuses on steady, respectful support throughout that process.

Therapeutic approaches and online options for healing

Karen integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters most to them and build practical steps towards a values-led life; ACT supports work with anxiety, stress and patterns that get in the way of meaningful living. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore how early relationships shape current connection styles and to help repair relational patterns, which can be especially useful for relationship difficulties, abandonment concerns and codependency. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a way to track and shift emotional responses in relationships, supporting deeper bonding and improved communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Karen works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best suit their needs, goals and preferences, and adapts the plan over time as progress and new insights emerge.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging provides flexibility for people balancing work, family and other commitments. These options make it easier to access appropriately qualified or registered professionals from different locations, reduce travel time and allow therapy to fit into varied routines while maintaining consistent, ongoing support from a therapist.