Karen Treisman

I am a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the NHS (National Health System) and children’s services for several years. I have also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide.

I have extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, and attachment, and work clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children.

In addition to holding a doctorate in Clinical psychology, I have also undergone a range of specialist training courses including EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Guidance, and Theraplay.

I have previously worked in both Milton Keynes's and Kensington and Chelsea’s LAC (Looked after Children) and fostering services, and within the National Implementation Service for evidence-based interventions for Looked after children, children on the edge of care, and children in custody at the Michael Rutter Centre in the Maudsley Hospital; and as Clinical Lead for a court assessment and intensive intervention team for children on the edge of care and in proceedings in Islington.

I am the director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds training and consultancy services.