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Karen Antoun

Psychomotor Therapist
DHA-P-11168850

Karen is a Psychomotor Therapist at Talking Brains Center in Dubai, with over 10 years of clinical and educational experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She specializes in cognitive, motor, and neurodevelopmental rehabilitation across school and clinical settings.

She holds a Master’s degree in Psychomotor Therapy from Saint Joseph University and is also a certified LSVT BIG practitioner, with a focus on movement amplitude training and functional motor rehabilitation in neurodevelopmental and neurological conditions.

Areas Of Expertise

Karen works extensively with children and adolescents presenting with:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Developmental Coordination Disorder (Dyspraxia)
  • Intellectual Disabilities
  • Motor coordination and fine/gross motor difficulties
  • Learning difficulties and specific learning disorders

She also has significant experience supporting adults in clinical and psychiatric contexts, including:

  • Down Syndrome
  • Neurocognitive and functional rehabilitation needs
  • Parkinson’s Disease and Alzeihmer’s

Languages: Arabic, English and French

Clinical Experience

Throughout her career, Karen has worked in a wide range of multidisciplinary environments including psychiatric hospitals, mainstream and special education settings, nurseries, and rehabilitation centers. This has strengthened her ability to adapt intervention approaches across developmental stages and clinical profiles.

Therapeutic Focus

Her clinical work focuses on strengthening:

  • Body schema and body image integration
  • Muscle tone regulation and postural control
  • Gross and fine motor skills
  • Executive functions (attention, memory, planning, inhibition control, cognitive flexibility)
  • Graphomotor skills and handwriting development
  • Cognitive-motor integration and functional independence