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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, non-judgemental space for you to explore your anxieties, thoughts and feelings about the difficulties you are experiencing.
Kate is a specialist relationship psychotherapist who works with both individuals and couples. She integrates a psychodynamic approach with Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), attending to both conscious and unconscious emotional processes. This integrative approach supports you in gaining insight into your emotional difficulties, as well as recognising and working through the patterns that are keeping you stuck. The aim is to help you move towards more authentic, connected and fulfilling relationship with yourself and others.
Couple Psychotherapy
“Love is eternal as long as it is care”
Leone Baruh (2025)
In couples therapy, the focus is on the relationship between you and your partner, the dynamic you create together, and each partner’s inner emotional experience. Kate helps couples identify shared goals, explore the feelings and vulnerabilities beneath recurring conflicts, and break cycles that leave them feeling stuck. By fostering curiosity and empathy, therapy can help you understand yourselves and each other more deeply, improve communication and intimacy, and build a stronger, more connected relationship.
Couples may seek therapy for a range of difficulties, including communication problems, emotional distance, insecurity, sexual intimacy, affairs, bereavement, illness, or major life changes, such as becoming parents or blending families.
Individual Psychotherapy
Therapy with Kate offers a space to slow down, reflect and gain insight into recurring patterns in your relationship with yourself and others. It can help you make sense of why you relate in the ways you do by exploring how past experiences may shape present difficulties, while developing a deeper understanding of the underlying emotional conflicts that influence how you feel and respond.
You may seek therapy for a specific issue, such as the loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, difficulties sustaining relationships, or questions around gender and sexuality. Equally, you may feel dissatisfied with aspects of your life, work or relationships without fully understanding why. You might also find yourself experiencing conflicting feelings about whether to stay in a relationship or remain in your profession.
ISTDP- Informed Therapy
Our bodies reveal emotional truths before our minds can fully understand them. Listening to both creates the foundation for meaningful change.
ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Therapy) is rooted in attachment theory and helps you make sense of your feelings and the patterns that may be holding you back. With greater understanding and support, you can begin to make changes that help you feel more connected to yourself and others, and live more in keeping with the life you want.
The therapist takes an active, collaborative role, helping you recognise anxiety and coping mechanisms that arise when you approach difficult feelings. By paying attention to both your emotional experience and your body's signals, at a pace you can tolerate, you can develop a deeper understanding of yourself and how you respond to your feelings.
Using an ISTDP framework involves the use of video, which aids the process and enables the therapist to be precise, address blockages, and review what has been missed in a live session. This way of working helps improve the quality of the work. Recording is done solely with explicit, informed consent, witch will be discussed transparently before treatment begins.
Kate offers individual and couples therapy, integrating ISTDP with a psychodynamic approach.
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 undertaking ISTDP Core Training (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) with ISTDP UK, an emotionally focused approach that complements and deepens her psychodynamic work.
Kate has extensive experience working with lawyers. Having worked in the legal profession herself, she understands the pressures and challenges that can come with it.
Fees & Availability
Kate’s private practice is in Bristol and London. She offers a quiet, comfortable, and confidential space for your therapy.
Kate offers both in-person therapy and online therapy via Zoom. Whether you are seeking short-term support for a specific issue or longer-term therapeutic work, sessions can be tailored to your needs. Longer sessions and block therapy are available in person only.
Session structure
Initial zoom call (free): 15 minutes
Initial consultation: 2 hours
Weekly sessions: 60 minutes
Fortnightly sessions (in person): 90 minutes
Block therapy (in person): 2–3 hours
Fees
Individual Therapy
Initial consultation: £150
Weekly sessions: £75–£90
Fortnightly sessions: £110–£130
Couples Therapy
Initial consultation: £200
Weekly sessions: £100–£110
Fortnightly sessions: £155
Block Therapy
Longer ad hoc sessions are available for individuals and couples. Please enquire about fees and availability.
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 two locations:
Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH (until December 2026).
Relational Spaces, 11 Marshalsea Road, London Bridge SE1 1EN.