About me
Hi, I’m Kae. Whatever has brought you here, I’m really glad you’ve found your way.
You might be exhausted from holding everything together for too long. Something in a relationship may have shifted and you are trying to make sense of where you stand. Or you may have been quietly struggling for years with how you feel about yourself, your body, or your place in the world.
Whatever it is, you do not have to keep carrying it alone.
Here is what I often support people with
• Feeling stuck in relationships that feel hard to leave or hard to change
• Family dynamics that feel painful, complicated, or long overdue a change
• Anxiety that is exhausting and relentless, making it hard to enjoy your life or feel like yourself
• Burnout, overwhelm, and emotional exhaustion
• A difficult or painful relationship with food or eating patterns
• Body image distress and feeling at war with yourself
• Shame that feels old, deep, and hard to shift
• Feeling disconnected from yourself even when life looks fine on the outside
• Breakups, affairs, or relational loss
• Feeling lost in relationships or unsure who you are within them
You do not need to have the right words or a clear starting point. We can begin exactly where you are.
A little about how I came to this work
I did not come to psychotherapy through a conventional route. Before training as a therapist, I worked in the fashion industry where people often spoke to me in ways they did not speak anywhere else. Pain about their bodies and appearance. The pressure to meet impossible standards. Shame carried for years in silence. Relationships that felt hard to leave. The fear of taking up space or being fully seen.
Later, I worked in a charity setting with some of the women I sat with who were holding everything together on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, and disconnected on the inside. Over time, this shaped the way I work. Gently, relationally, and with attention to what is happening in the body as well as the mind.
My practice is women centred and LGBTQIA+ affirming. Relationships are often at the heart of the work I do, especially the ones that feel confusing, painful, or hard to step away from.
I am an integrative psychotherapist and somatic practitioner specialising in
• Relationships and attachment patterns
• Body image and body distress
• Disordered eating and food related anxiety
• Burnout and emotional exhaustion
• Anxiety, shame, and low mood
BACP Registered Member. Online internationally and in person in East London on request.
I currently have limited availability, and if you are considering reaching out, this is a good moment to do so. I’d be really glad to hear from you and we can have a chat to see if we are a good fit.
Training, qualifications & experience
Post Graduate Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy, Level 7, encompassing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-Centred Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy.
BACP Registered Member
I have an established private practice working with adults online internationally and in person in East London on request. My specialist focus is relationships, body image, disordered eating, burnout, anxiety and shame. I work primarily with women and LGBTQIA+ clients. I offer a free 15 minute introductory call so we can explore together whether we are a good fit.
Post-Qualifying Specialist Training:
• Advanced Compassion Focused Therapy for Trauma using compassion-based techniques to reduce shame, self-criticism and trauma responses.
• Somatic Practice and Body-Based Trauma Interventions working with the body’s held tension, nervous system responses and physical manifestations of trauma and distress.
• Rewind Therapy a non-intrusive, content-free technique for treating PTSD, phobias and distressing memories without requiring the client to revisit traumatic detail.
• Focalizing a body-centred approach that helps clients access felt sense and inner knowing to support psychological change.
• Imago Relationship Therapy a structured approach to understanding and healing relationship patterns, rooted in early attachment experiences.
• Nutritional Therapy for Obesity understanding the physiological and psychological relationship between nutrition, body and eating behaviour.
• Group Facilitation design and delivery of therapeutic group spaces for women.
Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) introductory training in this mind-body approach for anxiety and emotional distress.
Specialist Training:
Eating Disorders and Body Image, National Centre for Eating Disorders comprehensive specialist training in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and body image difficulties.
Body Image Interventions for Nutrition Practitioners, Emma Hendricks specialist interventions for working with body image within a therapeutic and nutritional context.
Ongoing CPD in trauma, somatic practice, attachment, shame, eating disorders and relational depth.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Relationship breakdown and divorce
- Women’s identity and rebuilding after loss or life transition
- Narcissistic abuse and recovery
- Attachment difficulties and relational patterns
- Self-sabotage
- Emotional regulation
- Chronic pain
- Insomnia
- Identity and self-worth
- Low self-esteem and self-criticism
- Body shame
- Body image
- Body dysmorphia
- Binge eating disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Disordered eating
- Burnout
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Shame
- Grief and loss
- Life transitions
- People pleasing and boundaries
- Fear of being seen
- Isolation and loneliness
Therapies offered
Fees
£90.00 - £135.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual therapy 50 minutes £90, 80 minutes £135.
Limited subsidised fees available online at £75 per 50 minute session. Please enquire for availability.
All fees are discussed during the free 15 minute consultation.
Further information
I work online via Zoom, with sessions available from 6.30am GMT making them accessible for clients across the UK, Europe, and internationally. In-person sessions are available on request for clients based in East London.
My approach is integrative and somatic, meaning I draw on a range of evidence-based practices and shape the work entirely around you. Sessions are weekly and ongoing, giving the work the space and consistency it needs.
I offer a free 15-minute consultation for all new clients, an opportunity for us both to get a sense of each other and explore whether working together feels like the right fit.
