Karen lives in Buckinghamshire with husband Simon, and two youngest children, Joe (12) and Sam (10). Joe was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder aged 2 years 10 months.

Karen set up and ran full-time Son-Rise programme for Joe, for over 5 years, before moving on to an ABA/VB programme run under guidance of Growing Minds. Joe has recently started to attend school part time to help with socialisation..

Introducing a gluten casein free diet at the age of 4 stopped Joe regressing further into autism and Karen has made many further modifications to Joe's diet since, including Specific Carbohydrate and Low Oxalate Diets plus various supplements.

Karen has been treating Joe biomedically for the past 8 years, and has tried with many other alternative therapies including homeopathy, McTimoney Chiropractor, HANDLE, cranial osteopathy, AIT, and Bodytalk.