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Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes

Holyhead LL65 4HA

  • Grief
  • Trauma
  • Meditation
  • Spirituality
  • Wholebody Focusing
  • Creativity
  • Focusing Oriented counselling
  • Dreams
  • Inner relationship Focusing
  • Bodywork
  • Nature connection
  • IFS (Internal Family Systems)

Introduction

Focusing offered me the keys to the rest of me! Hi I’m Kat. I’m a Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist, Teacher and Practitioner. I run a Psychotherapy practice as well as Focusing, meditation and Hakomi trainings and wellbeing retreats on the wild coast of Anglesey, North Wales.

What services do I offer?

I offer individual Focusing sessions.
I offer Focusing Oriented Therapy within my Integrative Psychotherapy practice.
As a writing coach, I offer Focusing as a way to explore creative blocks.
I offer Focusing in nature sessions, as well as Mindfulness and Focusing retreats on the coast of Anglesey, North Wales, UK.

My background in Focusing

I am a Person-Centred Therapist, integrating Focusing Oriented Therapy with Compassion Focused Therapy, Hakomi and various mindfulness and somatic based trauma therapies.

I trained as a Focusing Practitioner and Teacher under Kay Hoffmann, with Peter Gill as my secondary mentor.

I have completed additional trainings with Peter Gill and Jan Winhall and completed my FOT certification at London Focusing.

Qualifications

Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist FOT (TIFI)
Certified Focusing Practitioner (BFA)
Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI)
Certified Focusing Trainer (TIFI)
Certified Focusing Teacher (BFA)
Certified Hakomi Practitioner (HEN)
Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Salford University)
Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Counselling and Psychotherapy (Salford University)
MA (Bournemouth University)
BA (The Open University)

Registered Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
The International Focusing Institute (TIFI)

How do I practice?

  • In person
  • Phone
  • Online

Testimonials

I got so much from this course! It was enjoyable and stimulating, I found myself looking forward to the sessions every week. Kat is a wonderful and rare mix of personable and warm, knowledgeable and wise. I not only received a valuable skill-set, but felt personally met and encouraged each week. The sessions were fun, reflective, deeply interesting and personally nourishing. The lessons were well-paced with a balanced interplay of theory, demonstrations and practice, and allowed ample time for feedback, questions and reflections. We covered topics like focusing with the whole body, focusing in nature, and working with parts of the self, and were offered clear, digestible and helpful handouts to support the sessions. We were guided as focusers to be gentle and curious with ourselves, and as listeners to encourage depth and exploration while sustaining a holding, witnessing presence for the other. The valuable work of Focusing helped coursemates get to know each other deeply, and encouraged a deeper relationship with ourselves, particularly the wisdom of our bodies.

This course has introduced me to the most wonderful toolkit for my wellbeing, and encouraged me to access a whole community of focusing practitioners who support one another. It is empowering to be able to take responsibility for my emotional life and be able to offer a holding, listening space to others. Also to realise that accessing compassionate support is not contingent on my ability to pay for therapy. Focusing is both accessible AND deep work, there is a wealth of literature and practice to support our ongoing development- the possibilities feel really exciting.

EK

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