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
Association of Applied Sport Psychology
American Psychological Association division 47
Carolina Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy
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
Association of Applied Sport Psychology
American Psychological Association division 47
Carolina Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy
Karen Quigley, LMFT, BCC, PCC
A human development specialist for 28 years, Karen created True Form Coaching and Counseling to help others discover their full potential. Karen has been a licensed marriage, family and child therapist since 1999 and has helped many people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences create the lives they most deeply desire. She currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she sees clients on-line now due to Covid-19. She also provides tele-therapy to clients who reside in Colorado, California, and Arizona where she remains licensed. Additionally, as a certified life and executive coach, she's able to provide life and executive coaching to people all over the world via video-conference calling.
Karen originally graduated from John F. Kennedy University with a double major: Holistic Health Education and Counseling Psychology. When she decided to become a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist she trained in EMDR in 1997 and mentored in Somatic Emotional Therapy by Stanley Keleman at the Center for Energetic Studies from 1995-2010. Her work is currently influenced by Craig Panner who combines EMDR and Somatic Experiencing with the work of Kathy Kane's Touch Therapy.
Somatic Processing is an eclectic integration of somatic and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. It combines a Rogerian person-centered process oriented approach with Gestalt therapeutic underpinning and an attachment focus. Several tools and interventions are from EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and after years of studying different researched backed best practice methods used in psychotherapy and pairing that with people's human nature and desires to live unencumbered by challenges, Karen mixes her best practice methods to customize an effective approach for your healing and personal growth.
When Karen worked in the field of addiction, a teen runaway shelter and school based counseling, she utilized cognitive behavioral and solution focused approaches to therapy. When she worked in the community counseling centers and non-profits she conducted individual, group psychotherapy, family and couple counseling being influenced by the work of Murry Bowen, Virgina Satir, John Gottman, Pia Melody and Sue Johnston as her original guides. During her years as a sport psychology consultant she spent a year working in a concussion clinic and was guided by her Life and Executive Coach Training influenced by Pat Williams and Susie Strauss and sport psychologists such as Britton Brewer, Kate Hayes, Jim Taylor and many others.
In addition to family counseling, one-on-one coaching and counseling, Karen provides a variety of professional staff trainings, seminars, workshops and presentations upon request.
Once an owner of a fitness business and former competitive athlete, Karen is particularly passionate about health and wellness. When she is not helping others find their True Form, she spends time running with her dogs, cooking, gardening, doing yoga, mountain biking, kayaking, paddle boarding, snow skiing, scuba diving, traveling, making ceramics, and raising three children with her best friend and husband, Tom.
On October 26, 2014 Karen represented the USA as an age group athlete in the Xterra Wold Championships, an off road triathlon. She was one of only 800 athletes from around the world to be invited. Honored to race against the world's best athletes she marked the second thrilling athletic accomplishment in her adult competitive career. The first major accomplishment was completing Arizona Ironman in 2012. She tributes her personal athletic success to the mental skills training, influenced by the field of sport psychology. Karen's practice at that time, focused on helping athletes set and achieve their goals which enabled them to excel in their sports. She worked with all athletes from beginners to professionals across several sports.
Karen originally graduated from John F. Kennedy University with a double major: Holistic Health Education and Counseling Psychology. When she decided to become a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist she trained in EMDR in 1997 and mentored in Somatic Emotional Therapy by Stanley Keleman at the Center for Energetic Studies from 1995-2010. Her work is currently influenced by Craig Panner who combines EMDR and Somatic Experiencing with the work of Kathy Kane's Touch Therapy.
Somatic Processing is an eclectic integration of somatic and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. It combines a Rogerian person-centered process oriented approach with Gestalt therapeutic underpinning and an attachment focus. Several tools and interventions are from EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and after years of studying different researched backed best practice methods used in psychotherapy and pairing that with people's human nature and desires to live unencumbered by challenges, Karen mixes her best practice methods to customize an effective approach for your healing and personal growth.
When Karen worked in the field of addiction, a teen runaway shelter and school based counseling, she utilized cognitive behavioral and solution focused approaches to therapy. When she worked in the community counseling centers and non-profits she conducted individual, group psychotherapy, family and couple counseling being influenced by the work of Murry Bowen, Virgina Satir, John Gottman, Pia Melody and Sue Johnston as her original guides. During her years as a sport psychology consultant she spent a year working in a concussion clinic and was guided by her Life and Executive Coach Training influenced by Pat Williams and Susie Strauss and sport psychologists such as Britton Brewer, Kate Hayes, Jim Taylor and many others.
In addition to family counseling, one-on-one coaching and counseling, Karen provides a variety of professional staff trainings, seminars, workshops and presentations upon request.
Once an owner of a fitness business and former competitive athlete, Karen is particularly passionate about health and wellness. When she is not helping others find their True Form, she spends time running with her dogs, cooking, gardening, doing yoga, mountain biking, kayaking, paddle boarding, snow skiing, scuba diving, traveling, making ceramics, and raising three children with her best friend and husband, Tom.
On October 26, 2014 Karen represented the USA as an age group athlete in the Xterra Wold Championships, an off road triathlon. She was one of only 800 athletes from around the world to be invited. Honored to race against the world's best athletes she marked the second thrilling athletic accomplishment in her adult competitive career. The first major accomplishment was completing Arizona Ironman in 2012. She tributes her personal athletic success to the mental skills training, influenced by the field of sport psychology. Karen's practice at that time, focused on helping athletes set and achieve their goals which enabled them to excel in their sports. She worked with all athletes from beginners to professionals across several sports.
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