Kate | Integrative-Relational Counsellor

No matter how much you love your children being a parent comes with all sorts of challenges. Whatever their age, kids are great at testing your patience, challenging your boundaries and really know how to knock your self-esteem.  There's a myth that parenting is meant to be a natural and beautiful skill that we just know how to do, its rare for anyone to get it right all the time. If you're feeling like its going wrong more than its going right, you might be feeling guilty and afraid to tell your friends in case they judge you. You're constantly giving but the demands keep coming and now you're feeling resentful because it never seems to be enough. You feel like its all on you with no way out and the weight of the mental load is overwhelming.

Being parented is something we all have in common, but it isn’t always the warm loving experience we deserved. Being parented may have been a traumatic experience for you having been held to impossibly high expectations, criticised, rejected or abandoned. Now whenever you see your parents its more pain than pleasure and you don't know how to protect yourself from their hurtful ways. This might have left you struggling with low self-esteem, wanting to make everyone happy but not feeling it yourself. As an adult you may be isolated unable to trust in the care of others and being alone is so much easier to tolerate than the fear of being abandoned. You might be battling with anxiety or depression and don't know how to change it.

Whether you’re the parent or the parented, challenges in this fundamental relationship can have profound impacts on how we experience ourselves and the world around us. If we don’t feel connected to the most important people in our lives it can lead to feelings of failure, guilt or a loss of trust in ourself and others. It doesn’t have to be this way, you deserve to feel confident, calm and enjoy your relationships.

About me

Hi I’m Kate, I love working with parents and adult children to overcome challenges in their relationships. Whether you’re an overwhelmed parent or have a difficult relationship with your parents, I can support you to get back in touch with yourself, identify and communicate your boundaries, overcome anxiety, let go of guilt and resentment, so you can have a happier, healthier relationship with your children and or parents. 

Having trained as an integrative-relational counsellor and in couples and relationship therapy, I extensive knowledge of all kinds of relationships and how our earliest experience of being in relationship to our parents plays a big part in our relationships and overall wellbeing as an adult. As an integrative-relational counsellor and relationship therapist, I have a big tool bag to dive into and equip you with all you need to fall back in love, with yourself and your family.

If this sounds like you contact me now and let’s get started.