Dr Karen Treisman is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the NHS and children's services for several years. Karen has also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide. Karen has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, and attachment, and works clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children. In addition to holding a doctorate in Clinical psychology, Karen has undergone a range of specialist trainings including in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Sensory Intervention, Video Interaction Guidance, and Theraplay. Karen has previously worked in both Milton Keynes's and Kensington and Chelsea's Looked after Children (LAC) and fostering services, and within the National Implementation Service for evidence-based interventions for Looked after children, children on the edge of care, and children in custody at the Michael Rutter Centre in the Maudsley Hospital; and as a Clinical Lead for a court assessment and intensive parenting intervention team for children on the edge of care and in proceedings within Islington. Karen is the director of Safe Hands and Thinking Minds training and consultancy services. Karen is also a tedX speaker. Karen is an external consultant, trainer, and assessor to several local authorities, schools, and to a variety of organisations including GrandparentsPlus, Barnardos Adoption Service, PAC-UK, AdoptionPlus, Pause, Three Steps, and the Fostering Network. Karen is a member of the CoramBAAF health group advisory committee, and a reviewer for the Journal of Adoption and Fostering. Karen regularly presents at local, national, and international trauma, parenting, and attachment conferences.