Richard Kaye

Availability: Wednesday to Sunday 7am to 1pm; Not available Mondays or Tuesdays.

Struggling to find out who you really are? Unable to be yourself with others? Feeling overwhelmed with emotions you don’t understand? Weighed down by past events? Locked into a cycle of toxic relationships? Unable to recover from an overwhelming loss?

I use empathy and honesty to try my best to really understand who you are and what it feels like to be you.

This forms a basis of trust and understanding which are the foundations of our work together.

My aim is to empower you to be more of who you are and to be free.

I use an integrative approach. Whilst deeply relational and broadly person-centred, I also incorporate behavioural cognitive techniques to address specific anxiety or low-mood issues where clients feel that would be helpful (e.g. panic attacks, social anxiety, specific phobias, debilitating low-mood).

My work is ‘attachment and mentalisation informed’ drawing on work by John Bowlby, Mary Main, Mary Ainsworth, Peter Fonagy and others.

I also use Jungian dream work if clients have dreams they want to bring. Dreams may reveal sides of yourself that are not making it into consciousness, these can often be validating and inspiring for clients.

My Face-to-Face sessions are on hold at the moment due to house move but will resume in September in the Leeds area. I am still available online,  by phone and for home visits.

After in initial meeting of about 30 minutes where we find out if we want to work together we can arrange your first full session. The initial 30minutes session and the 50 minute first full session are both free of charge. Subsequent sessions will be charged at my standard rate of £50 per session.