Psychotherapist - Bodynamic Analyst
Karen in her garden
Karen in her garden
Specialty: Karen specializes in empowering clients and families with new choices. Together with her clients, Karen sets goals to retrieve missing skills and to expand upon those skills that are currently available. She helps people successfully address daily life dilemmas, as well as any crisis or significant, long-term change.
Karen has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. She studied classical voice and many forms of dance and movement. Karen’s focus shifted after studying massage therapy. Her experience during massage training provided an integrated experience of muscle tension, emotional content and how they often combine in expressive patterns. Learning this information fueled her curiosity and prompted her subsequent career change into Body-Oriented Psychotherapy.
Experience and Credentials:
Karen is a Marriage & Family Therapist with a private practice in Marin County. There, she works with children, adolescents, individual adults, couples and families. Karen has sought to apply her somatic psychology skills in many stages of development and intervention. She has worked in childbirth education, labor support, as a pre-school shadow and consultant, and with disturbed adolescents and families in residential treatment. In addition to her private practice, she currently works part time in a correctional facility providing assessments, diagnosis, and crisis intervention.
Bachelor of Arts Degree from New College of California,
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Bodynamic Institute, USA, Novato, CA
California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists,
United States Association of Body Psychotherapy, Bethesda, MD
San Francisco, CA
B. A. in Somatic Psychology
M. A. in Body-Oriented Family Therapy, Marriage & Family Therapy
At CIIS, Karen studied for MFT licensure and many somatic modalities including Play & Movement Therapy, Sensory Awareness, Authentic Movement, Focusing, and Qi Gong. This program explored the history and application of somatic theories including the works of Elsa Gindler, Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, Sigmund Freud and many object relations theorists including Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen.
Bodynamic Institute, Vancouver, B. C., Canada
Foundation, Practitioner & Analyst Trainings in Somatic
Psychomotor Developmental Psychology & Reparative Trauma Work
State and Marin County Chapters
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, #MFC36611
Clinical Member
Phone: (415) 419-3529
Address: Fifth Street Professional Building, 1025 Fifth Street
Novato, CA 94945
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e-mail:
Karen Nordeen - kenordeen@bodynamicusa.com
