Dr Kate Bexley 

Principal Psychologist / Director

Kate is a friendly and approachable psychologist, who aims to help you understand how your difficulties developed, how they are being maintained in the ‘here and now’, and how you can break out of recurring patterns or cycles that you find yourself in, using practical strategies.

Kate is a qualified and registered Counselling Psychologist (DPsych), BABCP accredited CBT Therapist and has further qualified as an EMDR Therapist and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) Therapist.

Her key approaches are CBT, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). She draws on and skilfully blends these approaches to develop a tailor made treatment plan to best meet your needs.  

She has a specialist interest in helping people who feel like they are not good enough, or feel like a fraud and believe their success is due to ‘luck’ rather than themselves, and experience anxiety about being found out (imposter syndrome). People who experience this also have difficulties accepting positive feedback and a desire to get things as close to ‘perfect’ as possible. They may also worry and struggle with uncertainty, which can cause anxiety and low mood (i.e. generalised anxiety disorder; GAD).

Kate also has a keen interest in helping people people with developmental or complex trauma (C-PTSD) and disordered patterns of eating. 

Kate can also help if you are struggling with: 

  • Social anxiety– a persistent fear about social situations and being around people
  • Panic Attacks– periods of intense fear or apprehension that are of sudden onset and of variable duration from minutes to hours
  • Agoraphobia– anxiety in and avoidance of certain situations often due to crowedness or vastness.
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)– unwanted, unpleasant thoughts, images or urges that repeatedly enters a person’s mind, causing anxiety and motivation to engage in a behaviour to reduce the anxiety.
  • Health anxiety– persistent worrying about your own and/or others health
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)– anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events including road accidents, violent personal assaults, such as sexual assault, mugging or robbery, prolonged sexual abuse, violence or severe neglect and military combat
  • Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)– anxiety and uncontrollable worry about a wide variety of situations associated with restlessness, trouble concentrating or sleeping
  • Specific phobias– irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object (e.g. animal) or situation (e.g. heights)
  • Relationship Issues- including romantic, family, friendships and other platonic relationships
  • Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) – a response to prolonged and repeated exposure to traumatic events

 

She also has experience in working with:

 

Experience Overview:

2014- Present – Principal Psychologist/ Director, Counselling Psychology Online (Private Practice)

2017-2019: Principal Supervising Psychologist /Clinical Lead, NHS, Surrey and Merton Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).
2016-2017: Senior High Intensity CBT Therapist, NHS, Merton IAPT.
2013-2014: Counselling Psychologist (honorary), Addiction and Support Service, Surbiton.
2012- 2016: High Intensity CBT Therapist and Supervisor, NHS. Hammersmith and Fulham IAPT.
2009- 2012: High Intensity CBT Therapist, NHS. Richmond and Twickenham IAPT.
2008-2010: Assistant Psychologist, The Priory Hospital, Roehampton.
2008-2009: Psychotherapist (honorary), Kids Company, Hackney.

Qualifications / Further Training Overview:

2023: CBT-E, Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford University.
2022: Parts Therapy (Internal Family Systems), Therapy Northwest.
2018: EMDR Practitioner, EMDR Academy, London.
2016: Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, City University, London.
2015: Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Anna Freud Centre, London.
2010-2011: Post Graduate Diploma in CBT, Royal Holloway, University of London.
2009-2010: Post Graduate Certificate in CBT (Expert Practice), Kings College, University of London
2008-2009: Post Graduate Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Roehampton University, London.
2004-2008: BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury.

Accreditations:

Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) Registered Counselling Psychologist
BABCP  The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

 

Fees: 

Self-funding: £130 per session

Fees reflect the level of experience and quality of the therapy received.

Private Healthcare Insurance: Kate is a registered provider with: Aviva, AXAPPP, BUPA, Cigna HealthCare, Exeter Family Friendly, WPA and Vitality (Pru) Health.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you are registered with an alternative provider – some insurance companies simply require that we are approached by an individual for services before we are able to register with them.

Please note: We have a slightly different fee schedule for treatment that is funded by health insurance.  This is due to specific requirements for reports that insurance companies request.