About Karen Easter

Adversity is the state in which we most easily become acquainted with our self. John Wooden

Life can be challenging, and the mental health of everyday people is continually under pressure. Increasingly more of us need support to recover from relationship issues, overwhelming situations, anxiety and manage the struggles of life.

If you are experiencing anxiety, having difficulties in relationships or suffering from self-doubt, frustration or hopelessness, then I believe I can help.

We all can benefit from an experienced listening ear – someone with a blend of professional training, their own life journey and years of supporting others just like you.

You will see from my story below that I have encountered and overcome

Childhood trauma
Anxiety
Depression
Loss & Grief
An acrimonious Relationship breakdown

Education was a major pathway I took to enable me to understand and navigate this journey.

That education and subsequent years of helping people give me the confidence to support you at this time on your journey.

Everyone’s experience is unique, as is their response to it. I have given some detail of my own journey below to encourage and enlighten you, not to impress or for you to compare yourself.

Thanks for reading; I hope to meet you soon.

My own journey to find ‘the answer’ helped me to realise that talking about the problem did not hold the solution.

My first business, Resonate Hypnotherapy was opened in 2011 in Darlington Western Australia.

My journey into mental health really began after enduring a drought in a Midwest farming community. Married, pregnant with our second child we woke every day to dust, death and desperation. Struggling with helplessness, hopelessness and despair we desperately searched for solutions to our situation, to which there were none. Our desolated community was struggling to not suffocate under the challenges..

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t

My passion to discover faster and more effective treatments began to evolve as I witnessed people who I loved, disappearing into depression. My studies in psychology appeared futile, compared with the dire situation. My anguish compelled me to search for alternatives which offered hope, as we were failed by mainstream mental health treatments.

To improve and increase my knowledge, I invested time and studied with international psychologists, doctors, therapists and teachers in Melbourne, Queensland, NSW, USA and Perth. Additionally I studied hypnosis, psychotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming, counselling, and other non-conventional techniques while continuing with to study psychology. I exposed myself to anything that offered a release, realignment or reprogramming.

Gradually I felt clearer, more in control of my thoughts and actions. I stopped anxiety and overthinking. I stopped overreacting! I then shared the most effective skills with my clients. This integrative medicine approach uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches—conventional and non-mainstream—within a framework that focuses on mental and physical health, the therapeutic relationship, and the whole person. It really worked!

Taking this integrative approach, I developed TraumaClear®, a technique which clears the emotions of traumatic memory in minutes. As my experience grew, I developed programs to support people to stop anxiety, AnxietyClear® and AddictionClear to stop addictions and Mind Matters, which focused on other mental health challenges such as stress and relationship issues.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive Josefine Hart

Often as we heal, we begin to see our situation differently. I began to build confidence in myself. After enduring a co-dependent 20-year marriage it was beyond me how to change another person (and still is). We can provide solutions, support and strategies, but if they are not applied it is all futile. My devotion and commitment ended to save myself.

I understand about acrimonious divorces now and understand that within the darkest hours we learn our strengths and who are our closest friends. During the 42 months of battling to settle, somedays the only guarantee was that the sun would rise. My two daughters gave me the strength to keep going.

This painful learning allowed me to appreciate the importance of developing good relationships. Integral is a good relationship with yourself and then a relationship with others.

Dedicated to not reliving my past I developed knowledge and skills in communication, individual perspectives, presentations skills and reinforced my fundamental belief about the importance of a good relationship with yourself as a cornerstone to every good relationship.

All my lived experience and integrative techniques have helped me to support many people to change and succeed in their desired result. I feel privileged to do the work I do as I continue to develop projects, programs and on-line learnings to reach more people. I am grateful for my suffering as it is in these moment that we learn the most.

Thank you for your interest in my journey so far…

Life is the movie you see through your won unique eyes.
It makes little difference what’s happening out there.
It’s how you take it that counts Denis Waitley