Kathy Miller – London Family Therapist and Psychotherapist
I’m an experienced Systemic, Emotional Focused and Creative Arts Psychotherapist based in south London, providing therapy services for people seeking effective professional help with their mental health and well-being.
We all experience challenges to our mental health from time to time: from trauma, stress, anxiety, low moods and relationship difficulties to the feeling that something’s not quite working in life. The recent pandemic has also exacerbated issues people were already struggling with, often related to trauma experiences in the individual or family.
Over the last 40 years, I’ve developed a systemic, emotional focused and creative arts approach to psychotherapy which has consistently helped people enhance their self-esteem and confidence, improve their relationships, and effectively move through and beyond their trauma experiences.
Systemic Psychotherapy
Systemic psychotherapy considers people within the wider context of their lives, rather than focusing on thoughts and feelings in isolation. It explores areas such as relationships and communication, work and family, community, culture and more – an approach which creates better understanding, deeper and longer-lasting change, and truly helps people feel better about themselves and their lives.
Emotional Focused Therapy
Emotional Focused Therapy as developed by Sue Johnson, is a therapy that helps individuals, couples and families understand how the attachment model that they learnt in their family of origin is recreated and played out in all our relationships throughout our lives. This way of working helps each person understand how they get triggered and how to calm their nervous system and have less arguments and help repair early attachment wounding.
Creative Arts Approach
My somatic and creative arts approach to psychotherapy includes drama and dance, yoga and movement, drawing, and the use of small objects, therapeutic stories, imagination, voice and percussion – methods which help people access core issues and effectively process trauma in a way that’s not always possible with talking therapies alone. My approach helps people see things from new perspectives and identify creative solutions through any difficulties they may be facing.
Learn more about my work here.
