Karen Neri (she/her)

My Approach to Helping

I am a relational therapist with an orientation towards social justice and I am drawn to working with clients from a culturally responsive, collaborative, and systemic lens. I take a holistic and strength-based approach. I view my clients in the context of their family, social and cultural environment. I work with emotions to strengthen the bonds in relationships and facilitate trauma healing using somatics, mindfulness, neuroscience and compassion. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). I am especially interested in supporting interracial or multicultural/multiethnic couples in their partner relationships. I presently have some space to take on new partners and individuals.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that people are resilient social beings. We each have the capacity to bounce back from challenges, maintain positive experiences, and grow from our experiences despite life stressors. At our core is our need for security and connection; both of which are crucial to our well-being. The manner we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us can affirm or disaffirm our feelings of safety, acceptance and belonging. To this end, I see that we primarily interact with the world through our emotions as experienced by our senses, processed by our thoughts and reconciled by our language. It is from the place of social interdependence that we create a meaningful reality and experience an ultimate sense of well-being.