Empowering Young Minds: A Journey of Healing and Growth
In my role as an integrative psychotherapist, I am dedicated to nurturing the emotional well-being of children and young people, employing a blend of creativity, collaboration, and evidence-based care to guide them towards resilience and self-discovery.
Advocating for Children and Young People
As an integrative psychotherapist, I am deeply committed to advocating for the emotional rights of children and young people. Specializing in this area, I offer a space where my clients can explore their inner thoughts and feelings with empathy and without judgment.
Flexible and Creative Therapeutic Approach
My practice is marked by flexibility and creativity, integrating various therapeutic concepts to address a broad range of emotional challenges. From anxiety and depression to bereavement and trauma, I tailor my approach to suit the needs of each individual client.
Collaborative and Pace-Respecting Therapy
I believe in working collaboratively with children, young people, and their families, respecting their pace and building a safe rapport. By understanding each client’s emotional life from their perspective, I help them make sense of their world and build resilience.
Creative Expression and Understanding
My sessions may extend beyond talking, utilizing creative forms like play-doh, puppets, or games. These mediums assist in expressing feelings and experiences, facilitating communication and understanding.
Evidenced-Based and Client-Centered Care
I value each client deeply, basing my approach on evidenced-based research to facilitate awareness, change, and well-being. My work includes research into play therapy with refugee and asylum seeker children, reflecting my commitment to expanding therapeutic understanding.
Kate is an integrative psychotherapist and a passionate advocate for the right of every person to be seen, heard and understood. She specialises in working with children and young people and offers an empathic, non-judgemental, safe space in which her clients can explore their thoughts and feelings.
Being an integrative practitioner means Kate works in a flexible and creative way; drawing on a range of concepts including person centred, attachment theory, psychodynamic teachings and cognitive behavioural approaches. She has experience working with a broad range of emotional challenges including anxiety, depression, low mood, stress, bereavement, self-harm, developmental trauma and abuse. Kate has also supported with young people with ADHD and ASD.
Kate likes to work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and always at their own pace. She believes in building a safe space and rapport. Kate strives to understand a client’s emotional life from their perspective, enabling them to make sense of their world, find their own solutions and build resilience.
Kate gains an understanding of her clients by listening carefully, observing their behaviour and interpreting their play (where appropriate). She then supports them as they try to make sense of any thoughts and feelings that may seem difficult and overwhelming. Meeting a child or young person where they are emotionally may involve more than just talking, and Kate provides many different creative forms to help aid communication. Depending on the age of each client, Kate may offer the use of a sand-tray, paints, drawing, play-doh, puppets, or games in her sessions as these mediums can help an individual to express their feelings and experiences.
Kate’s clients are deeply valued, and her approach is based on evidenced based research to facilitate awareness, change and wellbeing. Recently, Kate conducted research into experience of play therapists working with accompanied refugee and asylum seeker children. She is currently working to get this published and is keen to expand her own and other therapists’ understanding of how children best heal from adverse life experiences.
My Therapy Room
My therapy room is a space of creative expression, where I meet my clients where they are emotionally. I utilize various creative forms, such as sand-tray, painting, drawing, play-doh, puppets, or games, to facilitate communication and expression beyond words.
