Welcome. I’m Kate Hodsdon, a BACP registered relational psychotherapist
Working with you to make sense of what’s shaping your relationships and deepen your capacity for connection.
The questions that bring so many to relational psychotherapy
What makes relationships so hard for me - and why do I keep repeating the same patterns?
Maybe these have been on your mind too? You may be feeling insecure in your relationships and anxious about getting too close to someone or feeling too far from them.
Perhaps you’ve noticed you somehow lose yourself trying to keep the peace or avoid rejection.
Do patterns play out with partners that feel eerily like family dynamics?
Maybe you feel lonely in relationships, misunderstood, or uneasy about emotional intimacy?
There might be longing and loss. Grief and shock. Anger and heartbreak. Desire and deadness. Love and hate.
In psychotherapy, you can bring all of it. We’ll think together. Connect the dots together. And get to the heart of what hurts, together.
By exploring how you live, love, and relate, therapy gradually offers old wounds a space to heal - and gives new possibilities room to be revealed.
A little about me
I work one-to-one with adults seeking to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply.
My intention is to co-create a space that helps you to meet yourself, settle into yourself, and become yourself. A space where you can slowly come to trust that I’m there for you as you explore your inner world.
One of therapy’s gifts, I believe, is coming to see how the way you live and love feel chosen - rather than simply inherited, or just ‘how things are’.
Currently accepting new clients
I have midweek afternoon and evening availability.
For in-person sessions, I see clients for 50 minutes at the same time and on the same day each week. We meet either in Central London, near Oxford Circus, W1W, or in Primrose Hill, North West London, NW1.
Wondering what to expect next?
You may find these helpful before getting in touch
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1. We have a free short intro call
You can tell me a little about what’s bringing you to therapy, ask any immediate questions, and get a feel for whether you’d like to meet again.
2. We arrange a Discovery Consultation
This is a 50-minute meeting to explore what you’re hoping for and what working together might look like. We agree on what your initial needs are for therapy - that way we’re on the same page.
It can be online or in person.
3. We decide together
After the consultation, we both think about whether it feels like the right fit.
If it does, we’ll agree how we’d like to begin.
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Not at all. Often, it isn’t one clear thing anyway. It might a mix of feelings, a specific relationship that’s hurting, a pattern you keep noticing, or simply the sense that something isn’t quite right. We start wherever you are.
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Yes. I work both online and in person in London.
Most clients prefer in person therapy, for relational issues. However, how I work and the way I am doesn’t change online or in-person. Other than you’ll see more of me if we’re in the same room.
We’ll figure it out once we have our Discovery Consultation. -
Weekly or twice weekly, for 50 minutes.
Meeting at the same time, on the same day, and every week helps build a secure base for our work.
In my experience, this is especially important for relational work where feeling insecure and disconnected is how people often feel in themselves and in their relationships. So consistency in therapy holds significance. -
Yes. What you bring to therapy is confidential, and I work within the BACP ethical framework.
There are some legal and safeguarding exceptions, which I’ll explain clearly before we begin.
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That’s exactly what the Intro Call and Discovery Consultation are for. You don’t have to decide before we’ve met. We both get a chance to see how it feels and whether working together makes sense.
If it doesn’t, I can see who might be a wonderful therapist for you from my network. -
Sessions are £110 in person and online.
If cost is making you hesitate, you’re still welcome to get in touch.
I can’t always offer a concession, but I’d much rather we talk about it than you assume it’s a no.
There’s always help out there when you know where to find it. If it’s not with me, I can help signpost you to other therapists or organisations.
