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Kate’s Approach
Kate offers a thoughtful, relational approach to therapy, grounded in compassion, curiosity, and emotional depth. She provides a safe and non-judgemental space for you to explore anxieties, thoughts, and feelings about a particular issue you are struggling with.
Kate is a specialist relationship psychotherapist and uses a psychodynamic approach, which attends to both conscious and unconscious emotional processes. It can be particularly effective in addressing anxiety, which is often linked to deeper feelings and experiences that may not yet be fully understood or conscious. Therapy supports the gradual uncovering of these underlying processes, helping you to better tolerate difficult feelings and gain greater insight into yourself and your relationship with others.
Through this work, the aim is not only to relieve emotional suffering and anxiety in the present, but also to support deeper self-understanding and lasting psychological change.
Couple Psychotherapy
In couple therapy, the relationship between you and your partner, and the dynamic that you both create is the focus of the therapy. Kate helps couples break cycles that can feel stuck, and encourages curiosity to help improve both the communication and intimacy between you and your partner.
Couple therapy not only attends to the couple relationship but can also help each individual in the relationship gain an understanding of themselves and how they relate to others, and when this is heard and understood by their partner, this can bring more connectedness between the couple.
Couples may seek therapy around issues such as communication difficulties, emotional distance, insecurity, sexual intimacy, affairs, bereavement, illness, or major life changes including becoming parents or blending families.
Individual Psychotherapy
Therapy offers a space to slow down, reflect, and become more aware of repeating patterns in your relationships with others. It can help you make sense of why you relate in the ways that you do by linking past experiences with your present difficulties, while developing a deeper understanding of underlying emotional conflicts.
Kate works with a combination of a Psychodynamic approach, and an ISTDP framework which is a shorter term and more active therapeutic model. This integrative approach is particularly effective in addressing anxiety as it helps you understand and reduce the emotional patterns and internal conflicts that may drive anxious symptoms, while supporting the development of more authentic and connected relationships.
You may seek therapy for a specific issue, such as the loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, difficulty sustaining relationships, or confusion around gender and sexuality. Equally, you may not fully understand why you feel dissatisfied with life, work, or relationships, or why you experience conflicting feelings about staying in a relationship or within your profession.
In-House Therapy
If you are an organisation looking for in-house therapeutic support, then I offer brief focused psychotherapy and reflective practice for employees. This could be on a monthly basis, or in a block of sessions either in-person or online. Kate is particularly interested in supporting Bristol based organisations.
Therapeutic support can be especially helpful if you have an employee who is experiencing a life event that is impacting on their work and their psychological health.
Kate has particular experience supporting lawyers and those working in high-pressure environments, who experience high levels of anxiety, self-criticism, and burnout.
About Kate
Kate trained at Tavistock Relationships, a leading centre of excellence for relationship and couple psychotherapy. She is a qualified Individual and Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, registered with British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
With several years’ experience, Kate has worked with couples and individuals across the lifespan, from young adults to those in later life, and has also provided in-house therapeutic support within law firms.
She has a particular interest in supporting clients through transition, bereavement, and grief. Previously, Kate worked at The Harbour, a Bristol-based charity offering brief, focused therapy for people facing death, living with life-threatening illness, or bereaved.
Kate is currently undertaking ISTDP Core Training (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) with ISTDP UK, an emotionally focused approach that complements and deepens her psychodynamic work. Rooted in Attachment Theory, ISTDP is highly active for both the client and the therapist, and helps clients develop greater self-understanding and a more compassionate relationship with themselves.
Fees & Availability
Kate is based in Bristol, with a consulting room located on Orchard Street (BS1). She offers a quiet, comfortable, and confidential space for therapy.
Kate provides both in-person sessions and online therapy via Zoom. Sessions can be either time-limited or open-ended, depending on your needs.
Session structure:
Initial consultation - 2 hours.
Ongoing weekly sessions - 50 or 60 minutes.
Block therapy (in-person) - 2 to 3 hours.
Fees:
Individuals: £70–£85 per session waitlist
(Initial consultation: £150)
Couples: £90–£100 per session waitlist
(Initial consultation: £200)Block therapy: longer ad hoc sessions for individuals and couples. Please enquire about fees and availability.
Corporate and organisational services:
Single-session and block therapy available. Please enquire directly.
Contact Kate
To find out about Kate’s availability, please complete the contact form and include briefly the type of help you’re looking for, and Kate will respond to you as soon as possible.
In-person sessions are held in Kate’s consulting room in Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH.