Types of Therapy
Kate offers individual and couple psychotherapy, as well as focused therapy for employees within organisations, and therapeutic supervision for professionals.
Therapy is a chance to bring what is on your mind and share your worries and concerns in a safe and confidential setting. Sometimes we are unaware of how we ignore or neglect our needs, and the act of seeking a therapist is often a courageous step in acknowledging that part of you needs some help to make sense of some difficult feelings.
The first step is the initial consultation where you have an opportunity to ask questions about how therapy works and get a feel for what it is like to work with Kate.
A feature of psychodynamic therapy is the continuity of weekly sessions, where it provides a reliable and safe space to think about, and work through, difficulties.
Individual Psychotherapy
Kate has experience of working with individual clients on a range of emotional difficulties including dissatisfaction with life, work or relationships, anxiety, depression, inability to sustain relationships, confusion around gender or sexuality, grief and loss, ageing parents, the impact of long-term illness and retirement.
You might have feelings of anxiety or struggle to create boundaries for yourself between your work and personal life, and might be considering whether to stay working in your profession. Working psychodynamically can help you understand some of the unconscious processes that drew you to the profession, and what may be contributing to the conflictual feelings you are having at work.
Couple Psychotherapy
In couple therapy, Kate helps couples break cycles that can feel very stuck, and to improve both the communication and intimacy between you and your partner. Kate has extensive experience helping couples who come to therapy either with a specific difficulty they are struggling with, or are perhaps feeling overwhelmed by the problems between them. Some couples seek help with improving or strengthening their relationship, and aware that their own parental models growing up are affecting their relationship.
Just some of the issues that Kate can help with are: struggles around parenting, the birth of a new baby, illness, infertility, problems in the sexual relationship, infidelity, anger and conflict that feels out of control, extended family problems, or difficulties in later life. Some couples come to therapy to help strengthen their relationship and wish to understand the other and themselves better.
Kate can also, when needed, help couples to separate better, and especially separated parents who wish to co-parent in a less conflictual and hostile way. Kate’s first career was in family law, and the conflict in approaches to care, of couples in distress, led her to transfer her focus to counselling and psychotherapy from the legal setting.
Support for Professionals
If you are a professional or an organisation looking for support, then Kate offers time-limited psychotherapy and reflective practice or supervision. This could be on a monthly basis, or a block of sessions.
This type of support can be especially helpful if you have an employee experiencing a life event that is impacting on their work and their psychological health. For example, if someone close to them is dying, recently bereaved, going through IVF, living with illness, or experiencing a breakdown of a relationship.
Kate has a special interest in the psychological needs of lawyers, partly having worked as a solicitor as she understands the pressures of the legal profession and how difficult it can be to ask for help and also navigate other challenges in life along side the demands of being a lawyer.
If you are organisation looking for therapeutic support, then feel free to email Kate to arrange a discovery call.
