About Me | Kate Williams Therapy

Hello, I'm Kate.

I run a thriving private practice, online and in Potton, Beds. offering somatic trauma therapy and EMDR to clients and clinical supervision to counsellors. I work with NHS IAPT clients delivering EMDR trauma therapy and privately as a Breath coach. As you’ll see throughout the website I have a passion for somatic work, trauma and parts work where I blend these modalities effortlessly together with EMDR.

I am a BACP (Accred) and EMDR UK (Accred) therapist with a degree in Therapeutic Reflective Practice and a Higher L4 C&G Dip. in Integrative Counselling, blending psychodynamic, person-centred and existential therapies within the creative arts. I am trauma-themed sensorimotor trained, under Pat Ogden’s Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and, yearly, I assist with their sensorimotor training.

I manage and tutor at the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where we run core counselling training and post-qualifying training programmes. I also enjoy bringing workshops into charities and organisations and staff wellbeing to the NHS. You’ll see me feature in the Counselling Tutor library and extensively in the Onlinevents library and the live Onlinevents page where I absolutely love bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to colleagues.

In my spare time I enjoy teaching yoga at the Tipi in Waresley where I also run monthly Breath sessions. I enjoy supporting participants to integrate those small moments of transformation that can occur in classes, to bring about long-lasting change.

I’m Trans Allied meaning that I’ve undergone specialist training on Transgender topics and am welcoming of all to my practice and am committed to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice.

BSc (Hons), MBACP (Accred), EMDR UK (Accred)

My background

I have been in the holistic and bodywork field since 2000 starting out as a massage therapist where I was captivated by the energy and movement work of Traditional Thai Massage and how that intersected with myofascial release, training both in Thailand and in the UK with Craniosacral therapist, Howard Evans. I went on to become a Yoga Teacher in Kerala, and a Yoga Therapist living and working in London working in gyms and fitness centres and going into businesses across the City offering Japanese Chair Massage. A friend and I spend a colour summer massing in Camden market. I later qualified as a Breath Coach, Yin teacher and Yoga Nidra facilitator in 2020.

Whilst training to become a counsellor in 2008, alongside, I trained for 4 years in Metaphysics qualifying with a diploma as a Metaphysical Practitioner. Psychospiritual principles have guided me throughout most of my adult life and still do support me to trust in my own process, follow where my energy takes me, and move beyond socially inherited beliefs in lack, limitation and fear. It was during my metaphysical training that I found Voice Dialogue (parts work) and I just knew, from that moment, that parts work would become central in my personal growth and influence my therapeutic work.

My counselling training incorporated Psychodynamic, Person-Centred and Existential within the creative arts. Upon qualifying I gained employment in the counselling team at Bedford College where I worked for 9 years before moving to Hertford Regional College for a further 2 years. Also upon qualifying I became a counselling tutor for Adult Education and Huntington Regional College, before setting up my own counselling training centre in 2012.

My previous counselling experience includes counselling in a further education college (over 10 years), an upper school, a children’s centre and a family service. I have experience working with childhood trauma, single-event traumas, attachment disruptions, relationship problems, depression, anxiety, self harm, eating disorders, addictions, trauma, family dynamics, low self esteem / confidence, loss of direction, sexuality and gender, stress & life crisis, loss and bereavement and other mental health conditions.