My name is Karen and I originally hale from the North East of England. Prior to moving to the beautiful Island of Mallorca, I had spent the majority of my working life as an Executive Assistant in corporate London, a million miles away from where I find myself now.

I've  been through a bit of a rough time over the last few years. Prior to moving to Mallorca I was living and working in Germany with my long suffering husband Simon. Out of the blue I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. In a foreign Country with a medical system I had no knowledge of, I found myself having to navigate the language and bureaucracy as well as the disease itself. Long story short, the treatment was a success and I came out of it all relatively unscathed – or so I thought. But as time moved forward, although I was feeling better physically, I was feeling much, much, worse mentally. My poor husband couldn’t cope with my worsening outlook with regards to my health and life in general and finally told me “You need help, I don’t know what else to do to help you”. He suggested I sought  counselling.

Through regular Counselling, I began to understand why I was feeling like I was, and was guided towards finding a solution. I realised that the job I had been doing for the past 30 plus years, was in fact the equivalent of bashing a square peg into a round hole. During one of our regular sessions Gary, my Counsellor, asked me what I thought about training to be a Counsellor.

I didn’t have to think about it for too long. What an amazing idea! I was itching to pass on my experience of beating cancer in the hope it could help and make everything less daunting for even one person. What better way to help someone battling this awful disease than through the Counselling process.

Fast forward to today, I am now a qualified  Accredited Counsellor and am lucky enough to be working with some wonderful people. 

Unfortunately, Counselling still has a stigma today, so my mission is to remove that stigma, and provide mental health care for people in the UK, and on the island, through my own business, and my work  with Cancer Support Group, Mallorca.