About Me
Hello, I'm Katharine
I'm a registered EMDR and Integrative Psychotherapist, based in the UK and working worldwide online, specialising in authenticity, attachment and the brain–body connection. I believe healing is about far more than just talking.
If you're here, chances are you're looking for something deeper than traditional therapy; real, lasting change rather than surface-level coping. You want to understand yourself on a whole new level and step free of the patterns that have been holding you back. That's exactly the work I love. I help individuals (18+) through regular sessions or deep-dive intensives; easing present triggers, releasing past pain, and getting clear on where you want to go. Upfront, my goal is to make myself redundant: for you to learn to live and thrive, in your life and in the world, without feeling you need constant therapy.
How I got here
Like many of my clients, my way into this work began with my own challenges — navigating relationships, work, gender identity and sexuality, all while making sense of deep-rooted trauma. For years I rejected therapy, thinking it was just endless talking, and instead sought myself out through travel, holistic healing and lived experience. Ironically, it was those explorations that showed me the power of weaving traditional psychotherapy together with more intuitive, soul-based ways of healing.
After a degree in drama and dance (because sometimes words don't fit or aren't accessible), I spent over a decade living abroad, soaking up new cultures, immersing myself in nature, and working internationally in New Zealand and around the world in voluntourism. When my marriage began to unravel, I knew it was time to do my own deeper work and face the parts of myself I'd been avoiding. That's when my curiosity about healing resurfaced, leading me to a master's in integrative psychotherapy, counselling and more specifically the deeper questions around what it means to be human, how internal change actually happens and how to best support it.
How I work
Healing isn't one-size-fits-all, and it isn't about 'fixing' symptoms. I work with people who want to meet their inner world with curiosity rather than judgment — those ready to break cycles, rewire old narratives, and reconnect with themselves more meaningfully. My approach is relational, non-judgmental, and grounded in both science and soul. I'll lend you my trust in the process until you're ready to trust it — and yourself — on your own.
EMDR forms the backbone of my work, woven with nervous-system regulation, parts work, movement and the body. I lightly say, but sincerely mean, that I've got all your tenses covered: present, past, future - and the one that shows up most and we rarely notice: the 'tense' of tension in the body. Therapy is 'in-tense' for a reason. With EMDR, the work helps the nervous system finally realise the past isn't happening anymore (even when the body is still holding it) and in the process recovery, release and repair can happen along the way. Ideally not only through tears, but through warmth, insight and a good dose of humour where it fits.
"Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain — unless it is done with play, in which case it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions."
— Dr. Karyn Purvis
So while we meet the dark and the difficult, there's always room for the light and the laughter that heal just as much.
What I work with
I especially love working with intergenerational trauma and attachment wounds, early-life sexual trauma recovery, EMDR and the Theta brainwave, and creativity and intuition in healing, movement, meditation and self-expression to deepen self-awareness. Stating that I 'love' working with these may sound strange, but these issues often feel so complex and overwhelming, and it seems my brain and lived experiences can help untangle them, recognise patterns and bring a broader simplicity to them which clients have found profoundly relieving and hope-giving, even amongst some very difficult and complex emotions along the way.
I also work well with the things that are harder to name, bringing an understanding of 'blank'ness and body sensations to better access what might be happening underneath in experiences such as overthinking, procrastination, a lack of emotion while longing for connection, knowing something's wrong even if it doesn't have words, despair for the world and concern for the future of humanity, rage and anger, the frustration of knowing what needs to change but not being able to make it happen, or avoidance because it's all just too much.
Beyond the therapy room
When I'm not with clients, you'll find me at the piano, out in nature, in movement, on long walks with my partner or swimming in the sea, slowly renovating a house, at trainings and conferences, and forever pondering human consciousness and what it means to be human in a complicated world. At least once a year I take a long-distance pilgrimage or slow travel adventure, marvelling at synchronicities, reconnecting with the simplicity of life, and letting my own insights form or settle.
Above all, I believe in authenticity and what I've come to know as 'agency'; stripping away the layers of 'shoulds' to step fully into the expression of who we were always meant to be, both as our individual selves, but as human beings too - there's a whole host of biology and physiology that's entirely normal and for too long has been pathologised and labeled as 'bad'. I have a soap-box I can go on about all that, but the crux of it is that there is so much hope and possibility, warmth and courage that can come when we learn to read our nervous systems and the way our mind-body works, to support a life and expression that feels congruent, present and ease-full for the body and mind. It's an honour to walk alongside my clients, and I celebrate every moment of growth, big and small.
An invitation
And if you're thinking, "sounds lovely, but I don't have much trust right now (or much hope)..." here's my invitation: where there's no trust, bring hope; and where there's no hope, bring yourself, just as you are — and let's see what we can make possible, together.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to invite you for a free 30-minute call, to meet and see whether working together feels right.
