HELLO AND WELCOME!

I’m Karin Ball and I am a Creative Arts Psychotherapist and an EFTi Accredited Certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Practitioner. I am currently training to become a Health and Wellness Coach and am now offering therapeutic coaching for WOMEN IN NEED OF SUPPORT.

I offer a holistic approach Integrating the Emotional Freedom Technique (aka tapping) together with other somatic, creative and coaching practices in my sessions. I primarily use tapping as a powerful tool to support the therapeutic process as well as drawing from various modalities from different trainings that will promote you FEELING YOUR BEST SELF.

Sessions will always be tailored to meet your specific needs, supporting you to heal and grow using a comprehensive approach considering your mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing.

EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT) also known as ‘tapping’ is an holistic healing technique that is based on the combined principles of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. EFT requires you to focus on a difficult emotion/situation/sensation/belief at hand. Using your fingertips you tap on specific meridian points while focussing on the root cause of distress. This sends a calming signal to the amygdala and lowers the stress hormone - cortisol, making you feel safe, calm and in control.

This powerful technique can be used for any issue that you find challenging, to help find relief, relaxation and promote healing around emotional, mental or physical issues that might be holding you back. EFT restores the balance to any disrupted energy. The therapeutic effects of this technique are recognised around the world and the effectiveness is supported by a large and growing body of scientific research.

It is similar to talking therapies but with a physical and mindful component.

Find out more about EFT here

I know first hand how frustrating it can be to not feel good mentally, physically and/or emotionally. I have struggled with dyslexia, high sensitivity and a chronic Autoimmune disease for most of my life which has often brought on feelings of overwhelm together with life’s different challenges.

My intention in my practice is to offer a wonderful combination of therapeutic and coaching tools I know would have helped me when I was struggling the most in various stages of my life.

I now have about 20 years’ experience as a facilitator and therapist, working with various client groups and organisations both locally and internationally. I strongly believe in the connection between mind, body and spirit and am continuously developing personally and professionally using a holistic approach.

Most recent, current and upcoming CPD training:

Navigating your Nervous System

Expressive Arts for Trauma Healing

Vagal Toning Program

Transforming Trauma

Introduction to Mindfulness

I am a member of the Health and Care Professions Council (UK) and EFT International-Association for Emotional Freedom Technique.

I believe my role as a therapist is to create a supportive, safe, encouraging and nourishing relationship and creative space that allows you to access and recognise healing and growth.

Through my mind, body, spirit approach I will support you to heal and grow with self-awareness, self-exploration and self-acceptance.

Areas of current and past work

• Mental health concerns; including anxiety and depression

• Neurodiverse/Neurodevelopmental disorders: including ADHD and ASD

• Emotional, behavioural and communication difficulties

• Stress and overwhelm

• Bereavement/loss/grief

• Relationship issues

• SLD

• Personal development

• Bullying

• Trauma and abuse

• Low self-esteem and low confidence

• Physical concerns

• Situational mutism

WHAT SOME CLIENTS & PARENTS SAY ABOUT WORKING WITH ME OVER THE YEARS……

“I had a chance to meet Karin when I have relocated to Singapore. Karin has offered me her EFT sessions, which were extremely helpful for me. During the EFT session I could reconnect to sensations in my body, to my feelings. I could as well become more aware, be able to release tensions in my body and liberate myself from previous traumatic experiences with compassion and forgiveness. Karin's EFT sessions are very powerful and efficient.
I can highly recommend Karin. She is an excellent and very experienced therapist.” P.D.

“I contacted Karin in order to seek help for my 11yr old daughter who had issues resulting from years of sustained mental abuse at the hands of her Mother.  Karin's profile stood out; being a very different approach from other therapists by using drama and art as a way of connecting and communicating with her Clients.  This medium proved highly effective for my daughter and allowed her to be very expressive and open up to Karin. Very swiftly I noticed a stark difference following the sessions.  My daughter would go there with the weight of the world on her shoulders but an hour later, would skip out - brimming with confidence and energy!  After several months, the transformation in my daughter's happiness, confidence and zest for life is hugely apparent.  She presents as a very happy young lady, one who understands she has a voice that deserves to be heard.  Someone who is now happy to tell us what she's thinking, feeling and what she wants.  Karin has inspired her to be who she wants to be and has equipped her with the tools to help her deliver on that, have a safe mental space when needed as well as go out into the world unashamed of who she is. I cannot recommend Karin enough.  She is warm, friendly, kind and insightful.  As a parent, I really appreciated the opportunity to debrief with her regularly and to both track how we felt the sessions were going and without pressure as to whether to extend or conclude for the time being.  Thank you for giving us our daughter back!” D.G.

"The workshop led by Karin amazed me by how she made the participants be open up their senses, feelings and emotion to each other. I really felt the connection between us even though that was the first time we met. Sincerely thanks to Karin for sharing us how to combine all kinds of art for the participant to choose the best suitable one for them." Thao

"I just want to say thank you to Karin. Thanks for inspiring me, for your positivity, creativity and understanding. It's not easy for people who living with mental illness! She was helping me and everybody at the workshop to understand our self, our feelings through to Dramatherapy. Such an amazing way, I've never seen something like that before.” Thanh

“Thank you so much for being a part of this project. It meant so much to me and to all of us who are involved, especially to the participants. It was an experience of a life time. Opening up the possibility of how the arts can help us to explore and express ourselves.” Tricia Nguyen Thanh Trang, Founder of The Wintercearig Project, Vietnam

“Dealing with loss and traumatic experiences for a 10 year old is never great; conflicted, confused, angry, scared, and wounded. With the help of Karin's child-centred creative arts therapy, my son was able to rebuild his emotional resilience and gradually rediscover himself and reconnect with his feelings. Within several months, Karin helped transform him back into a confident, hopeful young boy who could talk about his feelings and better understand how to deal with life. Therapy gave him a clear path forward and armed him with a vast array of techniques to take on the future.  We will be forever grateful to Karin for everything she has done for us.” S.H.

“Our 3 year old was diagnosed with selective mutism and it was recommended we start art therapy. After doing some research online we discovered drama therapy and how there was evidence of how helpful drama therapy can be for children with anxiety and/or selective mutism. We felt Karin was concerned and genuinely wanted to do her best to help. Karin is also a parent and we believe that played a part too. Over the next 6 months of therapy we noticed obvious improvement in our child's confidence and self esteem and she was relaxing and becoming more and more confident talking to people. From being an extremely anxious and timid child who wouldn't speak to anyone other than her parents and helper, she became confident enough to speak up during "show and share" time at nursery and to talk to her teachers and peers. By the end of therapy Amelies teachers were describing her as a "social butterfly". Not only did Karin help our child, but through several review sessions she was also able to guide us as parents and give us very helpful tips on things we could also do at home. We will forever be grateful to Karin for everything and would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone else.” R.M.

“I felt very welcome without any judgement. Karin provides a safe environment where I can go deep into traumas and upsetting experiences or just fuzzy worries that cannot be defined yet. She has a very gentle and intuitive yet structured approach which makes exploration easy but focused. She goes into a lot of detail when preparing the tapping session to fully understand what it is that I want to address. When she guides me with her summaries during the session I feel really understood and have fantastic realisations that I can reflect on after the session. Because I feel so understood, I can relax and fully dive into the journey.  She has a perfect combination between professionalism and passion to help. I find it so refreshing to work with somebody who really cares. Although we go into upsetting depth she keeps the therapeutic environment very positive and uplifting. She listens very carefully and takes time to understand. Karins tapping guidance is clear and compassionate, leaving me lighter and positive.” J.B.

I am currently offering sessions (Mon-Thurs) for women in person as well as online. In person sessions are held at The Bowood in Saffron Walden, Essex, England.

I offer a complimentary 30 min zoom consultation before any sessions are booked to discuss your needs and aims and to determine if I am the best person for you to work with. In this meeting we will discuss:

• the main issues that bring you to therapy

• what you hope to achieve from our work together

• what you can expect from the sessions

Once we both have agreed to work together, we will set up weekly, fortnightly or monthly sessions that will take place on the same day and time for as long as you feel you need them. Sessions will commence once you have consented to our work together.

 All Individual sessions (between 60-75min long) are charged at £75

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I look forward to hearing from you!