Kate’s Approach

Kate’s approach is reflective, compassionate, and non-directive, and offers clients a safe and non-judgemental space to explore anxieties, thoughts, and concerns about a particular issue.

Kate practises psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on increasing self-knowledge about how our internal world affects our external world, and vice versa. This dynamic between the two worlds is always changing and evolving, affecting how we relate to our family and intimate relationships.

It is a feature of psychodynamic therapy to explore our thoughts and feelings in the present in the context of looking at our past relationships and early attachments to help understand where our patterns of behaviour and beliefs come from. Where there has been a disruption in attachment between an infant and a care-giver, this can lead an infant to adopt defensive structures unconsciously, to protect them from pain, and if not addressed, can be repeated in our adult relationships and avoid emotional closeness.

Change and experiencing life’s ups and downs is inevitable and however much we expect these things, they can still shake us to our core and change us. Experiencing feelings of pain, loss and disappointment are part of being alive, and sometimes this can affect us by disengaging or withdrawing from relationships and opportunities, and psychotherapy offers a way to raise your awareness and help you break patterns that feel stuck.

Kate offers long-term weekly therapy and time-limited therapy in a block of sessions on the same day and time each week.