What is EmBodhiWork?
EmBodhiWork is holistic psychotherapy for cultivating the capacity and resilience to be with your whole Self…awake in this life.
Life changes often challenge our ability to feel calm, confident or content. It may be that parts of the Self have shut down due to wounding, trauma, pain, loss, anger, and aversions to suffering. Perhaps you wish to re-claim personal power and peace by discovering where and how you can be at choice in your life. Maybe you hope to rediscover your spark of aliveness and joy – to become more of who you are.
An essential part of my work with you is undoing alone-ness – developing a relationship with you by engaging my gifts of presence, patience, perception, empathy, wisdom, warmth, humor and compassion – a portal through which you might contact your self-at-best.
I trust that you have your own best answers. Therefore, one of my goals in therapy is to mindfully help you unpack, remember or discover your inner wisdom to empower you to make life choices with a sense of clarity and purpose – strengthening your own knowing “muscle.” A key part of the process often involves re-scripting: de-constructing and challenging self-limiting thoughts and beliefs in order to create a healthier life paradigm.
In her book, Healing the Dark Emotions, Miriam Greenspan states, “A grief deferred is a grief prolonged.” In my experience, it is not the pain of loss but rather the aversion to feeling the pain – trapped behind a wall of meaning – that causes unnecessary suffering. So one hope I hold for you is that, by learning to increase the capacity to be with all of your feelings, you can experience greater resiliency and vitality in your life.
Whether you are an individual, couple, or family, I work with you to facilitate, navigate and incorporate change on a variety of life transition issues including: loss, relationship, parenting, divorce, career, aging, spiritual growth, sexual orientation and relocation/acculturation.
The word Bodhi (Pali, Sanskrit) means to awaken. It is said that the Buddha attained enlightenment – a state of clear understanding – under a banyan tree at Bodh Gaya, today known as the Bodhi Tree
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Services Offered for Individuals, Couples and Families
Life Transitions
Pre-Marital
Marriage
Parenting
Blended Families
Divorce/Uncoupling
Retirement
Relocation
Grief
Loss
Ambiguous Loss
Trauma
Complicated
Grief
Relationships
Intimacy
Communication
Boundaries
Relationship Renewal
Video transcription service
Micro-analysis
Training/skill enhancement
Manuscript purposes
For Therapists
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Undoing aloneness through accompaniment…word-for-word
It is my pleasure to offer you a unique and specialized video transcription service – True Other Transcription – used by many therapists in preparing micro-analysis as well as for training/skill enhancement and manuscript purposes. Your work comes alive as I efficiently and accurately capture and track moment-to-moment verbal and non-verbal experiences within sessions, which is extremely valuable for AEDP/EFT/somatically informed therapists. Videos of your work with individuals, couples or group trainings can be conveniently and confidentially downloaded into a secure and HIPPA compliant inbox from anywhere. Soon after, you receive the completed transcript (including time codes and true verbatim) as an email attachment – either in grid format (with space to add your process and intervention notes) or script format (preferred for manuscript work).
I have transcribed over 2500 hours of clinical video sessions and welcome the opportunity to save you precious time and increase value by bringing your work to life. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and North Carolina and AEDP Institute member with AEDP training. Please contact me by phone (415.488.5565 EST) or email at karen@karenbatka.com for additional information regarding fees, supported file formats or references.
“I strongly recommend Karen Batka for AEDP transcriptions. Karen has the training and background as an AEDP therapist that makes her an excellent choice for transcriptions for the certification process and for faculty or others who need transcripts for training purposes. Karen has the capacity to bring transcriptions to life by including commentary about breathing changes, eye brightness or dimming, bodily posture and gestural expressions that include more channels of experience than the auditory alone.” D.M.
“Karen’s transcriptions are perfectly intuitive, and intuitively perfect. Once she transcribed some sessions for me, I was able to use AEDP in completely different ways. I gleaned tons of transformance that was brewing below the surface; her work allowed my work to rise from my heart to my brain and back again. Plus, she’s really easy to work with. I hope to meet her some day in my travels out to CA, and I imagine you’ll feel the same way after you work with her.” J.S.
Scheduling & Fees
Scheduling
Please contact me at 415.488.5565 (or by email at karen@karenbatka.com) to discuss your needs. I am licensed to practice and work with residents in the states of North Carolina (#1880) and California (#52325). When appropriate, I provide Telehealth.
Fees & Sessions
Sessions are either 50 or 80 minutes in length. It is usually beneficial for couples and families to schedule 80 minute sessions. We will discuss fees and scheduling during our initial phone consultation.
Payment Methods
A credit card will be retained through a secure site for fees and charged at the end of each session.
Insurance
Please mention your insurance provider when contacting me as I may be in network with your particular plan.