Hello, I’m Kate, a relational psychotherapist
Making room for all of you so we can understand how you live, love, and relate to others.
Attachment, relationships, and what helps us belong
My approach explores not only what you think, but how you feel about it, how your body responds, and where you are in all of it.
I’m interested in the ways we learned to attach, protect ourselves, stay connected, and keep going. Often, these ways of being made sense when we first needed them.
So rather than staying with what’s wrong, we get curious about what has helped you cope, belong, and stay close to others - and what may be asking for something different now.
With curiosity, comes possibility.
Curious about relational psychotherapy?
Here's an idea of what it might feel like with me.
A glimpse of how we might explore your thoughts, feelings and experiences together, paying attention to what emerges along the way.
So … how can today’s session support you most? / course, take your time / and the impact of that is … ? / say more / what makes it feel impossible? / can you share an example of this? / let’s explore that then / so, what you’d most like for yourself is … ? / how is it to imagine yourself like that? / what else comes to mind? / something’s making it difficult to talk about this … / how’s acknowledging that? / tell me more … / so that part of you is saying … ? / I noticed you drifted there … / how do you see that might make sense in context of … ? / what matters is that it’s meaningful for you / can we be curious about it? / when was the last time you felt that? / yes, let’s slow that down / what are you aware of coming up right now? / it’s OK, things come and go / can I share what I heard and understood? / please do … / we bounced somewhere else then / something seems to make it easier to think about that than stay with this / ah, what are you afraid will happen? / I’m curious about the bit in the middle too / maybe we could connect the dots? / what does it feel like, sound like? / I’m following, yes / is there an image that comes with this? / no rush / how is it for you to name that? / could they both be true and both be uncomfortable? / sounds complicated, yes / what story comes up with that? / what’s speaking to you most from this story? / protective too, in some way then? / so why does it annoy you? / I’m curious what you’re sensing in your body right now - I thought I noticed a slight shift / course, take another breath / do what you need … / how is it to say that out loud to me? / sounded like another part of you is trying to be heard too / why are you guilting yourself for that? / I’m interested in how that’s wrong to you / maybe another feeling is tied to it? / so a double judgement / silly, how? / / what are you sensing as you hear yourself? / me too / what did you imagine I’d think? / how’s voicing that? / not at all / where are you in all this now? / It doesn’t seem clear cut, no / can you be with both - it’s time to end for today / you too / see you next week.
How our therapeutic relationship can help you
Our relationship can reflect the ways we relate elsewhere - giving us something real to get curious about together.
This way of talking and reflecting together is at the heart of relational psychotherapy.
Here, all the things we know but never realised we know can come out of the shadows, and into the light. It's where the ways you relate to yourself and others can reveal themselves - safely.
Knowing you can bring what you really think and feel into a confidential, non-judgemental relationship can be wildly liberating.
Most clients find it a huge relief not having to check themselves and worry about how things land - even if it's uncomfortable at first.
You are warmly welcome here
My practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and inclusive of different identities, relationships, cultures, backgrounds, bodies, beliefs, and ways of living.
You don’t need to edit yourself here, explain or defend who you are. Our focus is in understanding your personal relationship choices and how you chose to live your life.
Our work is confidential and guided by the BACP ethical framework. I take your privacy, dignity, and autonomy seriously, and we’ll talk clearly about the limits of confidentiality before we begin.
Training & Professional Grounding
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My training helps me understand relational struggles from more than one angle - how early relationships shape us, how we adapt to stay connected, how distress can show up in the body, and why knowing something intellectually doesn’t always make it easier to change.
I’m a BACP-registered integrative psychotherapist with an MA in Existential Therapy Approaches. In practice, that means I’m most interested in your lived experience of being you, rather than reducing what you feel to a diagnosis or pathology.
I’ve also completed further specialist training in complex developmental trauma, attachment-based therapy, somatic approaches and mentalization-based therapy, alongside supervision in an attachment-based relational approach.
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I’m a fully insured, and registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP - Member No. 416929) and work within its ethical framework.
Qualifications
MA Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London (Existential Pathway)
Post-graduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London
Post-graduate Certificate in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London
Post-graduate Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Approaches, Bangor University
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My further training helps me work with the ways attachment, trauma, protection and relationship patterns can shape how you feel, connect, and respond to other people. It includes:
NeuroAffective Relational Model for Healing Developmental Trauma (NARM 2026 - Continuing)
Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice, The Bowlby Centre (2024)
Mentalization-Based Treatment, Anna Freud Centre (2024)
Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies, Linda Thai (2026)
Trauma-Informed Stabilisation, Janina Fisher (2024)
Working with the Disembodied Psyche, Susie Orbach (2025)
Building Better Boundaries, Terry Real (2024)
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I remain in personal attachment-based, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and clinical relationally focused supervision. Both help me keep reflecting on the work, my own responses, and what will best support you - which supports both of us, too.
I continue my professional development so the way I work keeps evolving alongside new thinking in relational, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and embodied psychotherapy.
A personal note about me
I've been curious about life's big questions for as long as I can remember.
In my twenties, life made me ask myself some of the biggest and most uncomfortable ones - which led me to therapy. My therapy training in psychotherapy gave me a home for so much of what I'd been curious about and unknowingly ebbing towards over the years.
Before practicing as a therapist, I worked in music and TV, agencies, tech startups, and a couple of big corporates.
I know a little about the ambition, uncertainty, intensity, performance, and reinvention they demand. As well as the ways that such career choices inevitably can become tangled up with identity.
More than anything, I'm interested in the person behind the role, whatever that role is.
