Kate Loosmore:

Integrative Psychotherapist (BACP)

I’m Kate Loosmore, an integrative psychotherapist accredited by the UKCP. I work with HQ Therapy Rooms from Highbury Fields, and have been in private practice since 2021. I currently offer sessions both in person and online.

Me and my practice:
I became a psychotherapist after four years of training, which I completed at Regent’s School of Psychology and Psychotherapy. I trained in the theory and practice of several different therapeutic modalities, allowing me to work in different ways depending on the needs of my clients.

Though my style of psychotherapy is adaptive, it reflects my theoretical outlook on the factors that can affect personality development throughout life, and how people come to internalise fixed ideas about themselves and others.

In my role as a therapist, my intention is to help my clients foster understanding, self-acceptance, and a sense of agency, which can lead to positive change.

I meet my clients with compassion and respect who they are and what they have experienced. We work together to attempt to make sense of the past and how it has shaped the present, and to take responsibility for all that follows. This involves being honest with ourselves and with one another.

Many people come to therapy because they have difficulty with relating interpersonally in some way, be that struggling with trust, vulnerability and intimacy, anger, shame and jealousy, or people-pleasing and compliance. The way that therapist and client relate to one another is a wonderful tool for exploring these relational dynamics, as the therapeutic relationship naturally becomes somewhere that recurring patterns are acted out and can be safely challenged. Our sessions are a conversation, and I bring my clients my questions and observations.

In such politically charged times, it is particularly important to me to remain aware of how I and my work sit in the wider context of society and culture. I am highly receptive to concerns about identity and belonging, for example, issues surrounding race, sexuality, gender and class.

I have helped clients address a range of presenting issues, including sex and relationship difficulties, feelings of anxiety and low self-esteem, and problems related to single-event traumas or complex traumatic upbringings. Some of my clients have had diagnoses of mental health conditions, such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.

For clients who have a diagnosis, I am interested in what it means to them and how they live generally, not only in their symptoms.

Sessions and fees:
If you’d like to begin working together, we will have a short online appointment first to see what you’d like from therapy and whether we’d be a good fit. There is no cost for this initial meeting. In this appointment and (should we decide to go ahead) the first session, I will ask some questions about your life, upbringing and significant people and events. Your autonomy is highly important, and it is up to you what you decide to tell me, and when.

I see clients for 50 minutes once a week, and charge between £50 and £65 per session. Therapy will be open-ended, meaning there is no time-limit to the number of sessions we can have. We will regularly review our work together to check how you feel about therapy and its progression.

To arrange a session or ask me for more information, please get in touch.

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