Empowering women with compassionate support and expert guidance through every stage of life, including parenthood.
Karen O’Mara is a clinical social worker specialising in women’s wellbeing, perinatal mental health and parenting support. She works with women and families through the many changes and challenges that accompany life, motherhood and the transition to parenthood.
Drawing on a compassionate, strengths-based approach and evidence-informed practices, Karen offers individual counselling and educational programs that support and empower women and parents. Her work focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing, offering a nurturing space where women can navigate tricky life transitions. She fosters secure parent-child attachments and strengthening family relationships and is passionate about helping parents better understand and respond to their children’s emotional needs, while developing the confidence, knowledge and practical skills to navigate the challenges of raising children.
Karen provides a warm, supportive and non-judgemental space where women can explore life’s transitions, parents can deepen their understanding of their children, and families can build the foundations for healthy, connected and resilient relationships.
Services
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Individual counselling with Karen offers a safe and nurturing space for women to explore and overcome the challenges of life stressors, including parenthood. Karen’s expertise in perinatal and maternal mental health provides tailored support for issues such as postnatal depression and anxiety, grief, and parenting struggles. Her compassionate approach helps clients navigate their emotions and experiences, fostering healing and personal growth related to a variety of life problems.
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Are you feeling isolated, lost and lonely since becoming a mum?
These days, it's becoming more common to live without a network of family and friends close by. This can leave mums feeling overwhelmed and alone.
Clinical Social Worker Karen O’Mara offers Brisbane-based mothers groups that focus on your emotional experience as a mother by bringing mothers together to have honest, raw and vulnerable conversations.
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The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program, facilitated by Karen O’Mara, is an evidence-based initiative that enhances parent-child relationships. Drawing on decades of research, this program aids parents in understanding their child's emotional world, helping to foster secure attachments and improve child behaviour. Karen’s guidance through the program ensures parents gain invaluable insights and skills to nurture a supportive and loving bond with their children.
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Karen’s professional supervision service is designed for health professionals seeking to deepen their practice in the perinatal and parenting fields. This service provides a reflective and supportive space to discuss clinical skills, fears, and aspirations. Karen’s supervisory approach encourages the development of new strategies and beliefs, enhancing professional growth and the capacity to serve clients effectively.
Karen’s Philosophy
Karen O'Mara’s philosophy centres on the belief that supportive, empathetic, and informed guidance is crucial for navigating the complexities of life, particularly parenthood.
Karen emphasises the importance of secure attachments and emotional connections within the family, advocating for a non-judgmental, safe space where clients can share and grow. Karen’s approach is tailored, holistic, and grounded in the understanding that each family’s journey is unique, fostering resilience, confidence, and a nurturing community for both women and parents alike.
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