Kate Lewis Therapy

06/01/2026

When life feels off-centre, a counsellor can help you slow down, reflect, and rediscover a sense of balance that feels right for you. 🌱

10/12/2025

Learn how perfectionism can affect well-being, why it happens, and how to move towards a more compassionate mindset.

30/08/2024

Building up a new private practice in person and online. DM me to talk further…

07/08/2024

This is such a wonderful book. Thoughtful, easy to read and for anyone who has an interest in… well, being human. Highly recommend.

01/08/2024

https://katelewistherapy.co.uk/

New website up and running, finally 👆

Hello and Welcome, I am Kate Lewis (MBACP) a registered psychodynamic psychotherapist offering in-person sessions at a confidential consulting room. Online sessions are also available via Zoom. Prior to my work in the mental health field, I spent 15 years in the health and well-being industry workin...

26/07/2024

Well put...

15/07/2024

In psychodynamic therapy, the relationship between the therapist and the client is very important. It provides a container in which people can gain insights into themselves, their pasts, and their feelings. They can develop a better understanding of how they see the world and the ways in which all these factors affect their experiences.

With the help of a therapist, people undergoing psychodynamic therapy will work to understand their feelings, beliefs, and childhood experiences. The goal is to help people recognize self-defeating patterns, explore new ways of being in the world, and help people feel better.

15/07/2024

Are you in crisis? Do you need someone to talk to? I work from Hertford Wellbeing Rooms ad hoc during the week. Email me for more details.

15/07/2024

What is psychodynamic therapy, and how can it help you?

Psychodynamic therapy is based on the following key principles:

Unconscious motivations — such as social pressure, biology, and psychology — can affect behavior.
Experience shapes personality, which can, in return, affect an individual’s response to that experience.
Past experiences affect the present.
Developing insight and emotional understanding can help individuals with psychological issues.
Expanding the range of choices and improving personal relationships can help people address their problems.
Freeing themselves from their pasts can help people live better in the future.
Transference and countertransference are also important. With this approach, the client will transfer their feelings toward someone onto the therapist, and the therapist will redirect these feelings back toward the client. It can take place without the client’s awareness, and many therapists have varying approaches to this concept.

In psychodynamic therapy, the relationship between the therapist and the client is very important. It provides a container in which people can gain insights into themselves, their pasts, and their feelings. They can develop a better understanding of how they see the world and the ways in which all these factors affect their experiences.

With the help of a therapist, people undergoing psychodynamic therapy will work to understand their feelings, beliefs, and childhood experiences. The goal is to help people recognize self-defeating patterns, explore new ways of being in the world, and help people feel better.