Karen is the owner/founder of Laskey Coun­selling & Hyp­nother­apy.  She is a mem­ber of the Cana­dian Pro­fes­sional Coun­selling Asso­ci­a­tion, The Cana­dian Col­lege of Pro­fes­sional Coun­sel­lors & Psy­chother­a­pists, and the Inter­na­tional Med­ical & Den­tal Hyp­nother­apy Association.

Karen has been in the health and well­ness indus­try for 20 years. Rec­og­niz­ing the impor­tance of proper diet and exer­cise, she became a fit­ness instruc­tor and trainer in 1986. Help­ing peo­ple to become phys­i­cally healthy was reward­ing, but her under­stand­ing of the effects that the mind and emo­tions have on the body, and her desire to take peo­ple to a deeper level, led her to train as a psy­chother­a­pist through the Cura Insti­tute in 1997. After work­ing with clients for 2 years, Karen began to see the power and the magic of the sub­con­scious, which led her to fur­ther her train­ing to include hyp­nother­apy in 1999.

Since then Karen has trained in Emo­tion­ally Focused Ther­apy for Cou­ples and con­tin­ues her train­ing through var­i­ous related workshops.

In order to pro­vide effec­tive ther­apy to indi­vid­u­als with dif­fer­ent needs and ways of being, Karen’s train­ing embod­ies an inte­grated approach. The basis of her work is hyp­nother­apy, cog­ni­tive ther­apy and emo­tion­ally focused ther­apy, but she also uti­lizes tech­niques such as reflec­tive lis­ten­ing, focus­ing, body-centered ther­apy, regres­sion and dream work.

Karen’s per­sonal heal­ing jour­ney has afforded her the expe­ri­ence to under­stand that safety within the ther­a­peu­tic envi­ron­ment is cru­cial for change to occur. She will pro­vide safety by lis­ten­ing atten­tively with empa­thy and under­stand­ing and with­out judg­ment or blame. By giv­ing you per­mis­sion to be where you are and work with what is, you have the free­dom to explore your life and expe­ri­ences your own way. The knowl­edge Karen has gained work­ing with indi­vid­u­als with many diverse issues, cou­pled with her per­sonal heal­ing expe­ri­ence, pro­vides her with the skill, com­pas­sion and com­mit­ment to facil­i­tate your unique process of self-discovery.