Integrative Psychotherapy — London W11
Beyond doing.Towards being.
In a world that asks us to keep doing, therapy offers something different. An opportunity to slow down and simply be. A return to yourself, where presence deepens, connection grows, and aliveness awakens.
You may be functioning, achieving, holding everything together — and still feel that something is missing. Therapy is where we tune into that sense and reconnect with what really matters.
( 01 ) — About Kirsty
An unusual path
to this chair
Law. Meditation. Motherhood. Then psychotherapy.
- The CityCity Lawyer & Tax Adviser
- The CushionBuddhist Practice
- The FamilyGrowth through relationshipsConscious Parenting Coach
- The ChairIntegrative & Transpersonal PsychotherapistI am currently furthering my clinical practice with the NHS Tavistock Complex Trauma Team
My path to becoming a psychotherapist was not a straight line. It came instead through living — through questions that kept returning, and would not be reasoned away.
Professional life taught me what it costs to keep functioning while something inside goes unattended. Years of Buddhist practice taught me to stay with experience rather than hurry to resolve it. Family life continually teaches me to challenge my perspectives and let go.
Symptoms often carry meaning — rather than simply needing to be fixed.
Five years of training at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education drew those threads together. What I have come to understand is that our struggles are rarely problems to be solved — more often they are an invitation to listen more closely to what is asking for our attention and what needs to emerge.
KirstyDip. Psychotherapy · LPC · LLB (Hons)MNCPS Accred. · MBACP
( 02 ) — What we might work on
Things that bring
people here
Some people arrive with a clear issue or crisis. Others with something harder to name — a life that looks fine from the outside but doesn't feel it.
Anxiety & overwhelm
When your mind won't switch off, and holding it together has become a full-time job.
Relationship patterns
People-pleasing, difficulty with boundaries, fear of rejection, or being drawn to emotionally unavailable partners.
Early experiences & trauma
When childhood experiences or trauma continue to shape how you feel about yourself, others and the world.
Burnout & ADHD
Exhaustion, scattered focus and self-criticism.
Low self-worth
A harsh inner voice, perfectionism, and the quiet belief that you're somehow not enough.
Loss of meaning & purpose
Disconnection or a loss of meaning, despite a life that appears, from the outside, to be working.
Life transitions
Parenthood, career change, separation, loss — the thresholds that ask us to become someone new.
( 03 ) — My approach
“You often hold more understanding and capacity within yourself than you realise. My work is to sit beside you while we find it.”
Relational
Change happens in relationship. The relationship we build together is at the heart of the therapy.
Psychodynamic & Attachment
Exploring how early experiences and relationships continue to shape the way we feel, relate and move through life.
Existential
Exploring meaning, purpose, choice and what it means to live a more authentic life.
Transpersonal
Making space for the deeper dimensions of experience, including presence, spirituality and the search for wholeness.
( 04 ) — How it begins
Beginning therapy can feel like a significant step.
You stay in control and go at your own pace — in a space that's thoughtful, collaborative and free from judgement.
A free 15-minute call— no obligation
A relaxed phone conversation about what brings you here, and whether working together feels right.
A first session
We explore your experiences in more depth. No pressure to continue afterwards.
Ongoing work, your way
Short-term or open-ended — in Notting Hill, Maida Vale or online.
( 05 ) — Common questions
Wondering
about anything?
If your question isn't answered here, our free consultation is a chance to ask anything that's on your mind.
Ask me directly →Do I have to commit to long-term therapy?
Not at all. I offer both short-term and open-ended work, and there's no obligation to continue after a first session.
What happens in the free 15-minute call?
We talk about what's brought you to therapy and whether working together feels right. It's a conversation, not an assessment — nothing to prepare.
In person or online — which is better?
Both work well. I see clients in person in Notting Hill and Maida Vale, and online by video — we can talk about which suits you best in our first call.
What kind of therapy do you practise?
I'm an integrative psychotherapist, which means I don't work from a single fixed model. I draw on relational, psychodynamic, attachment-based, existential and transpersonal ways of working, and let what you bring shape how we work together. In practice that means attending both to the patterns beneath a difficulty and to the questions of meaning and purpose that so often sit alongside it.
Is what I share confidential?
Yes — what you bring to our sessions stays between us. I work within the ethical frameworks of the BACP and NCPS, and there are a small number of rare situations, mainly where someone may be at serious risk of harm, where I might need to share something. We'll talk these through together before we begin, so nothing comes as a surprise.
Take the first step
Let's begin with a
conversation.
A free, unhurried 15-minute phone call about what's bringing you to therapy. No forms, no obligation.
Notting Hill · Maida Vale · Online