Katie Merritt

I'm Katie Merritt, a psychotherapist with a Postgraduate Diploma (Level 7) in Psychotherapy and Counselling and specialist GSRD (Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity) accreditation. I'm a Registered Member of BACP (MBACP).

Before training as a therapist I spent years working in the creative industries. That background shapes how I think, about identity, about the stories we tell about ourselves, about the gap between who we are in public and who we are in private, intersecting with story in a fluid and flexible way.

I'm also co-founder of Queer Spaces, a community organisation offering creative wellbeing experiences in LGBTQIA+ spaces in London. My connection to queer communities isn't theoretical. It lives outside the therapy room in the wider collective unconcious.

Clinically, I work integratively, drawing on psychodynamic, person-centred, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches. My practice is relational and depth-focused, which means we work with patterns, with the body, with what's underneath. I'm intellectually curious and I don't do formulaic, binary, overly definitive.

I work with:

• LGBTQIA+ people at any stage of identity or coming out
• Trans and non-binary clients
• People in kink and BDSM communities
• Non-monogamous, polyamorous, and relationship anarchist clients
• Queer people working in the creative industries
• Anxiety, shame, complex trauma, and minority stress
• Anyone who's felt like too much, or not enough, in a therapy room before