With over 34 years of experience as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice, Dr. Karen Harutyunyan has worked extensively with children, adolescents, and adults from diverse backgrounds. Known for his attentive and responsive professional style, Dr. Harutyunyan provides direct feedback, offering clients a clear understanding of how they will collaborate right from the initial meeting.

As a therapist, Dr. Harutyunyan believes in three primary roles: witnessing, challenging, and supporting individuals. By reflecting their clients' experiences back to them, he helps them gain clarity about themselves. Through gentle challenges, he empowers clients to break free from self-imposed limitations. Additionally, Dr. Harutyunyan provides skillful and caring support, enabling clients to find the courage to explore new paths.

Through psychotherapy, Dr. Harutyunyan aims to help individuals develop a deeper connection with their emotions, empowering them to navigate life with greater clarity and awareness. He offers psychotherapy services for individuals, couples, and families, tailored to meet their unique needs.

Furthermore, Dr. Harutyunyan offers supervision for practicing psychotherapists and students embarking on their professional journey. If you are considering an initial consultation, Dr. Harutyunyan can be contacted by phone or email, where he will gladly address any inquiries regarding his approach and areas of expertise.

Dr. Harutyunyan specializations are but not limited to:

• long-term psychoanalytic practice with children, adolescents, adults and couples;
• short-term treatment of acute and chronic panic attacks, anxiety states;
• post-traumatic stress conditions;
• crisis intervention and follow-up for adolescents and adults (issues related to abortion, suicide, self-destructive and impulsive states, self-image, identity);
• acute or chronic mentally challenging states in collaboration with pharmacological treatment offered by a psychiatrist;
• forensic psychology studies and expertise (trauma, abuse, attachment disorder, parental capacity and alienation, criminality).

Psy. D. Clinical psychology, UQÀM, Montreal (2007-2020)

PGD Child Forensic Studies, Psychology and Law, University of Leeds, UK (2002-2004)

Master Clinical psychology, University of Practical Psychology, Armenia (1996)

Professional Diploma in Clinical Psychology, Yerevan State University (1988-1993)

Harutyunyan Karen (2005), Child Abuse : Assessment, Treatment and Prevention,
Yerevan, Zangak, 340 pages (Monographie)

Oedipe Kleinien
1992

Déviances comportementaux ou désordres émotionnelles?
Lecture présentée au XVI Conférence International de Psychiatrie Légale, Poland, 1998

Confronting Family Violence: A Triad of Domestic Abuse, Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
New York Foundling Hospital, The Sister Helen Murphy Annual Professional Conference, Association of the BAR of the City of New York, October 24, 2001

Shame and Juvenile Delinquency
Article presented as a poster in The II International Psychology and Law Conference, Edinburgh, UK, July 2003

Children’s Protection and Guidance Centre as a Mirror of Street Children’s Life in Armenia
Paper for The IX International Conference of International Society on Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Warsaw, Poland 2003

Child Abuse in Armenia: Results of Nation-wide Survey
Presented on Intergovernmental Conference in Bosnia, Sarajevo, 13-15 May, 2004

Mechanisms of Transmission of Transgenerational Psychopathology and Parental Representations
Second International Congress of Psychoanalytical Family Therapy, Montreal, Canada, August 3-6, 2006