Dr Kate Bexley 

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, EMDR UK and Europe Practitioner 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: 

• Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia
• 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:

• Drug and Alcohol Addiction
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
• Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) and Dermotilomania (compulsive skin picking)
• Childhood Trauma
• Domestic Violence

Training, qualifications & experience

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.