About me
Hello, my name is Kate, and I’m a qualified psychotherapist offering face-to-face and online therapy in Painswick, Cheltenham, Stroud, and Gloucester. I offer a non-judgemental space for you to unpack your troubles; honouring the trust you have placed in me to maintain confidentiality and safety. I work with individuals, couples, and families, and I also offer ecotherapy - using nature as a gentle, grounding part of the therapeutic process.
Individual Therapy
I know it can take courage to reach out for therapy, and my aim is to help you feel safe, heard, and respected from the very first session.
My way of working is flexible and shaped around you. Some people come to talk about what’s happening in their life right now, others want to understand patterns from the past, and many want to do a bit of both. We’ll go at your pace, focusing on what feels most important to you.
My role is to walk beside you, offering understanding, perspective, and a space where you can make sense of things in your own time.
Time: 50mins
Fee: £60.00
Couple's Therapy
Relationship therapy is a broad and inclusive term that recognises there are many different kinds of relationships, not just traditional couples.
Research shows that relationship difficulties can have a real impact on mental health, often increasing feelings of anxiety or low mood. One of the key aims of relationship therapy is to support healthier communication, helping people feel heard, understood, and valued.
Sometimes therapy helps people reconnect and strengthen their relationship. At other times, it can support couples in separating in a way that feels respectful and reduces unnecessary hurt. Either way, the focus is on understanding, clarity, and care.
Time: 50mins
Fee: £90.00
***Please check your junk or spam folder if it seems I haven’t replied, as my emails occasionally end up there. If you still can’t find my response, just let me know and I’ll happily resend it.***
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a BSc (Hons) in Counselling and Psychotherapy, including training in Couples and Family Systems Therapy, alongside a Foundation Degree in Therapeutic Counselling.
I am a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and work in line with their ethical framework. I attend regular clinical supervision to support safe, reflective, and ethical practice.
My experience includes working in private practice as well as within charity and educational settings, supporting people with a wide range of emotional and relational difficulties.
I am committed to ongoing professional development and regularly undertake further training. This includes work in areas such as trauma and recovery, domestic abuse and coercive control, anxiety, addiction, eating difficulties (including ARFID), neurodiversity, perinatal trauma, online counselling, and working therapeutically with nature.
CPD Training:
Working with Couples: Domestic Abuse and Violence
Domestic Abuse
Coercive Control
Walk & Talk Therapy
Releasing Trauma Safely & Effectively
Working with Addiction
Anger Energy v Aggression
Working with Cancer
Anxiety: what is it and how to work with it
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Dealing with Controlling, Intimidating, and Manipulative Personalities
Trauma, the Brain and Recovery
Deep Ecology Series (Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, Samhain)
Working with Neurodivergent Clients
Adult Safeguarding
Abortion Support
Counselling Online
Perinatal Trauma
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Counselling sessions are offered on a weekly or biweekly basis. Monthly sessions may be available upon negotiation.
We will review our work together on a regular basis in order to ensure that it is meeting your needs effectively.
You do not have to be in a crisis to access therapy. Counselling is for everyone!
*** Please check your junk or spam folder if it seems I haven’t replied, as my emails occasionally end up there. Let me know if you still can’t find my response, and I’ll happily resend it.***
When I work
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early morning | |||||||
| Morning | |||||||
| Early afternoon | |||||||
| Late afternoon | |||||||
| Evening |
Further information
Client Feedback (details omitted for privacy reasons):
“Kate is a fantastic counsellor and psychotherapist. There is real thought and process with the journey that you go on with her. She takes the time to listen and understand, whilst also offering practical tools and techniques to use in real life. I have benefitted significantly from working with Kate”.
Ecotherapy
As a seasonal psychotherapist I observe and honour the annual cycle of the seasons. This allows me to celebrate my connection with nature, and explore symbolism and meaning in personal growth and clinical practice.
Human beings are deeply intertwined with the rhythm of the land, and we can use the outward changes in nature to reflect the growth and evolution experienced in our own lives.
Living in harmony with the seasons that transform the nature around us, can help us cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves and help us lead a more meaningful life.
Ecotherapy recognises that through our connection with natural green spaces, nature has the ability to nurture us, and we can match this healing contact by nurturing nature.
Over the last decades poor mental health and chronic stress have substantially increased across the globe, with research indicating that nature can improve mental health. By losing contact with natural ecosystems people forget about the importance of nature to well-being.
Ecotherapy includes a range of re-connective practices which reconstruct the therapeutic frame in an outdoor setting and/or utilise the natural environment. Ecotherapy strives to form a platform that provides beneficial effects for humans and for nature where both have an effect upon the other, and it is the reciprocal relational aspect that are part of the therapeutic journey.
Ecotherapy can be booked via www.earthwisdomtherapy.co.uk
