Katie Walsh

My Approach

My work is rooted in:

• Attachment‑focused therapy – exploring how early relationships shape present patterns
• Trauma‑informed practice – supporting the nervous system, not pushing past it
• Neurobiological understanding – helping clients recognise and regulate changing emotional states
• Relational depth – therapy as a trusting-based, co‑created space
• Queer‑affirming practice – celebrating identity, fluidity, and lived experience

Drawing on humanistic and psychoanalytic foundations, to help clients understand how early experiences and nervous system adaptations shape present‑day patterns.

I work gently but with intention. I believe therapy should feel like a place where you can breathe, be fully yourself, and not have to explain or justify your identity or experience.

LGBTQ+ Focus

I have extensive experience supporting LGBTQ+ clients, particularly those navigating:

• identity exploration and pre- and post- transitioning
• family or cultural conflict
• complexities of queer relationships and attachment
• trauma linked to sexuality or gender
• belonging, community, and chosen family
• queer expression and confidence

As an Irish therapist living between Ireland and London, I’m especially attuned to the intersection of queerness, migration, cultural identity, and the emotional complexities of living between places.

Having lived this cultural experience myself, I understand the complexities of identity, belonging, and transition. I bring a grounded, empathic, and culturally attuned style shaped by years in people‑focused roles before training as a psychotherapist.