Kate Chandler

Kate Chandler is a person-centred psychotherapist with a background in neuroscience and biology. She works within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost counselling service in Clapham. She is a member of UKCP. She has a Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and is working towards a Masters in Contemporary Person-centred Psychotherapy. She is passionate about her work as a psychotherapist and believes that therapy works best when you find a therapist with whom you can build a great working relationship and feel really comfortable with.

Kate offers a safe, supportive and empathetic space where clients can feel seen and heard as their true selves and share whatever they want to work on and need support with. She can help clients process difficult or painful thoughts, feelings and experiences, or major problems that seem difficult to solve. She believes that therapy can be a powerful and life-changing experience. It can help you improve relationships in all areas of your life, make the decisions that are right for you even when you are faced with difficult choices. Therapy can help you develop to your true potential and can help you work on the things that hold you back. Kate is person-centred which means you, the client, are encouraged to bring whatever you want to talk about without any judgement at each session, be that what you are going through at the moment or things in your past that are affecting you. You decide what you want to explore and completely at your own pace.

Kate has a background as a scientist, manager and leader in professional settings in the private and public sector so she brings diverse and extensive life experience to her work as a therapist. She has interests in the following: Workplace issues, burn-out and stress – helping you resolve issues and reduce your stress levels. Relationship issues – supporting you to have better relationships in all areas of your life or work or recovering from the end of a relationship. LGBTQI+ and sexuality issues. Imposter syndrome – helping you to understand why this might get in the way of self-confidence and developing your own ways of being more confident. Polyamory and other relationship styles – dealing with the complex dynamics that come with different Relationship dynamics and dealing with jealousy. Helping you deal with major change and life transitions