Katie Boyle

I currently work on Friday daytimes from 9.30am to 5pm.

I am a psychodynamic counsellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. As such my approach is rooted in a psychodynamic perspective, which focuses on how childhood experiences and early attachment relationships shape our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in the present.

When appropriate to your needs, my specialist training in Somatic Experiencing ® and yoga enables me to offer a body-centred approach to exploring your difficulties. This may involve slowing down enough to notice how parts of your story may be held in the body as sensation (such as tension, pain or emptiness) and how to support your body to process and release.

I offer a supportive space where you can freely express your thoughts and feelings – even those that may be difficult or uncomfortable - and become more aware of yourself in relationships.

Exploration can include getting in contact with buried feelings, unresolved conflict, and unquestioned beliefs that shape our day-to-day life. There is a focus on emotions and feelings while exploring the present and memories of the past.

We may also explore the emotional expression that happens in session between us. Working together, we are curious about repeated patterns of experiences and relationships.

If appropriate, I may, at times, also invite you to slow down and tune into the sensations in your body. The body and nervous system speak through the language of sensation, emotion, images, subtle movements and gestures. Together we will tune in to what is arising in the session for you.