Katie Rennison, BACP

She is an integrative humanistic counsellor with three years of professional counselling experience, combining several therapeutic approaches to fit each person's needs. She holds BACP, which denotes membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and reflects adherence to professional standards and ongoing development.

For two years she worked as an in-house counsellor supporting NHS doctors, working with a wide range of concerns including anxiety and depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, fractured family relations, abuse and neglect, ADHD and autism, and supporting recovery from addiction. That clinical role exposed her to diverse presentations and helped shape a flexible, person-focused practice.

She has a particular interest in the effects of trauma and how past experiences can influence wellbeing and mental health. Across her work she emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as central - listening with genuine empathy and offering unconditional positive regard to build trust. By attending closely to each person's perspective she aims to understand their world and collaborate on a way forward.

She describes counselling as a unique space many of us need amid busy lives - a place to be heard without rushed responses, misplaced advice, judgement, or criticism. In her practice clients are invited to be themselves and to work at a pace that feels right for them.

Working from a person-centered foundation, she believes individuals are the experts on their own lives and that the right conditions support personal insight and change. She is trained in a variety of modalities, including Gestalt, solution-focused approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, existential work, and emotion-focused methods, and she tailors therapy by integrating elements from these models to create a bespoke approach. She values the opportunity to learn from every client and looks forward to beginning collaborative work with those who seek support.