Karen Quigley, Owner
Education:
John F. Kennedy University, MA Counseling Psychology & Holistic Health Education
John F. Kennedy University, BA Psychology & Living Systems Science: Honors in Majors
Professional Affiliations:
EMDRIA
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
International Coach Federation
John F. Kennedy University, MA Counseling Psychology & Holistic Health Education
John F. Kennedy University, BA Psychology & Living Systems Science: Honors in Majors
Professional Affiliations:
EMDRIA
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
International Coach Federation
Karen Quigley, LMFT, BCC, PCC
I have been a human development specialist for 25 years. The dark night of the soul in my life came at 17, when I nearly died. Facing a long road to recovery, I found many traditional and alternative healing practices and methods. A therapist in my early 20's inspired me to become a therapist. She was trained in somatic experiencing and helped me better understand how trauma lives in the body and that body-based psychotherapeutic practices, in combination with holistic health and alternative medicine was a very healing path for my recovery. I found great meaning, purpose and value in learning to help others and being a healer continues to define my life.
I created True Form Coaching and Counseling to help others enjoy meaningful lives and reduce suffering. I have been a licensed marriage, family and child therapist since 1999 and have helped many people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences create the lives they most deeply desire with quality relationships.
I currently reside in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I sees clients virtually. I am also licensed in Colorado, California, and Arizona and work virtually with clients from those states in counseling. Since I'm a life-coach, I can provide life-coaching to people anywhere in the world, and work with client's in other states. I facilitate trainings for therapists with Craig Penner in Natural Processing, an advanced somatic-EMDR. I offer professional consultation services to other licensed clinicians, and coaches.
I originally graduated from John F. Kennedy University with a double major: Holistic Health Education and Counseling Psychology. I decided to become a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, trained in EMDR in 1997 and mentored with Stanley Keleman in Somatic Emotional Therapy at the Center for Energetic Studies, Berkeley, CA from 1995-2010. My work is a combination of tools from family systems, Gestalt Therapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Natural Processing, CBT/DBT, John Gottman, Poly Vagal Theory, and Attachment Theory. I draw from other research backed methods when appropriate and collaborate with my clients to best meet their coaching or therapeutic needs.
Somatic Healing is an integration of body-oriented psychotherapies, trauma-informed approaches, attachment theories and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. It is a client-centered approach that's experiential. This enables the clients to create new experiences of themselves in our sessions, or workshops. It is from generating new experiences, in the therapeutic or coaching relationship, that enables clients to embody themselves differently between sessions. I structure our sessions to make sure our focus is collaborative and aligned with the client's goals.
I have worked with a variety of populations in multiple different settings prior to my private practice and creating True Form Coaching & Counseling. I worked at a teen run away shelter with troubled youth and their families. I spent many years as a school counselor, and community mental health clinician. I worked in the field of addiction in treatment centers in the late 90's. I have been a seminar presenter, educator, workshop provider, public speaker, staff trainer, business consultant and sport-psychology consultant. True Form Coaching and Counseling began as my private practice setting in 2011.
I am particularly passionate about health and wellness and the body-mind-soul integration for healing the whole person. When I am not helping others find their True Form, I spend time making ceramics, running with my dogs, cooking, gardening, doing yoga, mountain biking, paddle boarding, snow skiing, traveling, and hanging out with my family.
I created True Form Coaching and Counseling to help others enjoy meaningful lives and reduce suffering. I have been a licensed marriage, family and child therapist since 1999 and have helped many people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences create the lives they most deeply desire with quality relationships.
I currently reside in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I sees clients virtually. I am also licensed in Colorado, California, and Arizona and work virtually with clients from those states in counseling. Since I'm a life-coach, I can provide life-coaching to people anywhere in the world, and work with client's in other states. I facilitate trainings for therapists with Craig Penner in Natural Processing, an advanced somatic-EMDR. I offer professional consultation services to other licensed clinicians, and coaches.
I originally graduated from John F. Kennedy University with a double major: Holistic Health Education and Counseling Psychology. I decided to become a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, trained in EMDR in 1997 and mentored with Stanley Keleman in Somatic Emotional Therapy at the Center for Energetic Studies, Berkeley, CA from 1995-2010. My work is a combination of tools from family systems, Gestalt Therapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Natural Processing, CBT/DBT, John Gottman, Poly Vagal Theory, and Attachment Theory. I draw from other research backed methods when appropriate and collaborate with my clients to best meet their coaching or therapeutic needs.
Somatic Healing is an integration of body-oriented psychotherapies, trauma-informed approaches, attachment theories and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. It is a client-centered approach that's experiential. This enables the clients to create new experiences of themselves in our sessions, or workshops. It is from generating new experiences, in the therapeutic or coaching relationship, that enables clients to embody themselves differently between sessions. I structure our sessions to make sure our focus is collaborative and aligned with the client's goals.
I have worked with a variety of populations in multiple different settings prior to my private practice and creating True Form Coaching & Counseling. I worked at a teen run away shelter with troubled youth and their families. I spent many years as a school counselor, and community mental health clinician. I worked in the field of addiction in treatment centers in the late 90's. I have been a seminar presenter, educator, workshop provider, public speaker, staff trainer, business consultant and sport-psychology consultant. True Form Coaching and Counseling began as my private practice setting in 2011.
I am particularly passionate about health and wellness and the body-mind-soul integration for healing the whole person. When I am not helping others find their True Form, I spend time making ceramics, running with my dogs, cooking, gardening, doing yoga, mountain biking, paddle boarding, snow skiing, traveling, and hanging out with my family.
Published Articles that reference Karen Quigley and/ or True Form Coaching
Running to a Rhythm: How Music Helps Runners of all Abilities by By Peter Gerstenzang, Published Aug. 7, 2014,
How To Combat Negative Self-Talk By Susan Lacke Published Oct 22, 2014 & How Triathletes can Keep Calm: by Susan Lacke: 2016
Running to a Rhythm: How Music Helps Runners of all Abilities by By Peter Gerstenzang, Published Aug. 7, 2014,
How To Combat Negative Self-Talk By Susan Lacke Published Oct 22, 2014 & How Triathletes can Keep Calm: by Susan Lacke: 2016