MSW(Q), MMHP Griff, BHS UniSQ
CLIENT APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
Karen Nickelson is an Accredited Social Worker who brings invaluable lived experience and broad work experience to her therapy space.
She is passionate about helping clients of all ages to make sense of the complexities of life, and to help them build and maintain strong relationships.
Karen understands that life events and traversing many stages of life can be painful. Specialising in grief and loss, she offers a safe, non-judgemental and collaborative space focused on balancing the conflict of memories, pain and grief together.
Karen works collaboratively with adults and families across the lifespan to discover the beauty and healing in their story. She believes in her clients’ abilities as experts of their own lives and takes a person-centred and trauma-informed approach while using evidence-based therapies to build a strong therapeutic alliance and healthy rapport. Karen is skilled at facilitating communication and emotional regulation with younger clients.
Karen is guided by compassion, integrity and social justice values and will treat you with the utmost respect while upholding the highest ethical standards. Her Christian faith further informs the compassion, steadiness and hope she brings to her therapeutic work. For those clients who wish, she is also able to integrate faith-aligned values and perspectives into her sessions with sensitivity and respect. People describe Karen as being warm, kind and caring.
Her holistic approach to therapy includes:
Karen holds a Master of Social Work and Master of Mental Health Practice from Griffith University and Bachelor of Human Services (Counselling) (Child & Family) from University of Southern Queensland. She is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers, Palliative Care Social Workers of Australia and Australian Counselling Association.
She has experience in telephone crisis counselling and is an Accredited Mental Health First Aider.
Karen is an NDIS and Department of Veterans Affairs Provider and an Approved Counsellor with WorkCover Queensland.
