Cmist Counselling

Dr Karen Doherty is an accredited counsellor with 30 years counselling experience in professional and pastoral settings with individuals, couples and groups, with issues  such as depression, anger, relationships, work issues, bullying, conflict, stress management and trauma (PTSD). Her approach is to provide cognitive behavioural counselling(CBT) and problem management in a safe, confidential place, free from judgement.

Karen set up CMIST (Counselling, Mediation, Interventions, Solutions and Training) in 2006. One of the aims of CMIST was to transfer the knowledge and skills from the counselling  environment to team, organisational and working environments.

She has also worked on a conusultancy basis with a wide range of employers and organisations, in health, public, voluntary and private sectors, in NI and UK,  providing counselling, training, mediation and welfare support .

Over the past 15 years  Karen has developed  and extended her professional practice into Mediation and conflict resolution in workplace and teams . Mediation is increasingly recognised as an effective yet relatively low cost and low emotional impact way of resolving disputes and conflicts. The use of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to help the individual for personal development and to enhance team effectiveness.