I’m Katie Redshore, a UK-based registered psychotherapist, ICF transformational coach and qualified hypnotherapist working online with women who feel like they’ve lost themselves somewhere along the way.
My integrative approach brings together psychotherapy, coaching and hypnotherapy alongside creative and practical psychological tools, so we can work with what you need.
About Katie
I’ve never been
particularly interested
in fitting people into
boxes. Therapy included.
I’ve never been particularly interested in fitting people into boxes. Therapy included.
At the heart of my work is the belief that meaningful change starts with learning to value yourself enough to make different choices, whether that means asking for help, setting a boundary, trusting yourself or finally making yourself a priority.
I'm Katie Redshore, a UK-based registered psychotherapist, ICF transformational coach and qualified hypnotherapist working online with women who feel like they’ve lost themselves somewhere along the way.
My integrative approach brings together psychotherapy, coaching and hypnotherapy alongside creative and practical psychological tools, so we can work with what you need..
Setting boundaries
Trusting your own judgement
Listening to what you need
Treating yourself with compassion
Allowing your wants to matter enough to influence the choices you make
I’m curious about people. About why we do the things we do, where our patterns came from, and what keeps us repeating them even when we know they don’t make us feel good. I also believe understanding yourself is only part of the work. Sometimes you want somewhere to make sense of what happened. Sometimes you want practical ways to respond differently. Sometimes you want to work at a deeper, more subconscious level with thoughts, beliefs and patterns that are difficult to shift through conscious effort alone. Often, you need a bit of all three.
Change begins when you stop abandoning yourself.
What I believe about change
I’m curious about people. About why we do the things we do, where our patterns came from, and what keeps us repeating them even when we know they don’t make us feel good. I also believe understanding yourself is only part of the work. Sometimes you want somewhere to make sense of what happened. Sometimes you want practical ways to respond differently. Sometimes you want to work at a deeper, more subconscious level with thoughts, beliefs and patterns that are difficult to shift through conscious effort alone.
Often, you need a bit of all three.
Over time, it’s easy to become disconnected from yourself when you’ve learned to look outward first. What will keep the peace? What will make someone else happy? What are you supposed to want?
Eventually, your own needs, preferences and instincts can become harder to hear.
That’s why Self-Love sits underneath so much of my work. I don’t mean bubble baths, affirmations or pretending to adore every part of yourself. I mean...
Taking yourself seriously
Listening to what you need
Trusting your own judgement
Setting boundaries
Treating yourself with compassion
Allowing your wants to matter enough to influence the choices you make
And because people arrive here with different histories, personalities and ways of coping, I don’t believe there is one correct way to create meaningful change. Sometimes we need to understand what shaped a pattern. Sometimes we need to work with thoughts, emotions, behavior, or subconscious patterns in a different way altogether.
The work should fit the person, not the other way around.
Why I do this
I want women to
stop being everything
to everyone except
themselves
So many women become incredibly good at looking after everyone else. They remember what everyone needs, keep things running, smooth things over, show up, adapt, give, organise and carry far more than anyone probably notices.
It isn’t only about how much women do for everyone else, either. So many seem to live with this constant sense that they should be better somehow.
Thinner. Prettier. More successful. More organised. More confident. Further ahead.
We compare ourselves, pick ourselves apart and move the goalposts every time we get close to feeling good enough.
And somewhere in all of that, they can start treating themselves as the least important person in the room.
I wish more women could see themselves the way I see them.
Capable, powerful, creative, resilient and worthy of taking up space.
Women are f**king amazing. I care deeply about helping women recognise their own worth, trust themselves and stop believing that having needs, setting boundaries or choosing something because they want it automatically makes them selfish, (like that's the worst possible thing you could do).
“Selfish” isn’t a dirty word in my world anyway.
Sometimes choosing yourself is exactly what allows you to show up in your relationships, your family, your work and your life without disappearing inside all of them.
I want more women to know that they are
allowed to take up space, have preferences, change their minds, disappoint people occasionally and build lives that include them too.
I want women to stop being everything to everyone except themselves
Maybe it’s time you made yourself part of the plan
1. My interest in psychology began long before I ever thought about doing this professionally. I had a difficult childhood and, like a lot of people, grew up carrying things I wanted to understand. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do we repeat things that hurt us? Why can we know something isn’t good for us and still find it so hard to do anything differently?
2. Self-help books were one of the first places I went looking for answers. Over the years, that became a much bigger process of understanding myself, my relationships, my body, my self-worth and my tendency to people-please.
3. When I eventually went to therapy myself, I realised how much I didn’t know. I’d heard people talk about boundaries, obviously, but I didn’t really know what one looked like. Nobody had ever taught me how to work that out, let alone how to put one into words and hold it when somebody didn’t like it. I know first-hand that something as seemingly simple as saying no can feel anything but simple when you’ve spent years learning to keep other people happy.
4. I was lucky enough to work with an incredible therapist, and that experience changed a lot for me. It gave me language for things I hadn’t had words for and helped me question ideas I’d carried around for years. Looking back, I think a lot of my own change started with a ridiculously small amount of self-love. Maybe only 1%. Just enough to think, maybe I’m worth doing something about this for.
5. A few years later, I trained as a transformational coach and absolutely fell in love with it. I loved the energy of coaching, the practical side of it and seeing what could happen when somebody moved beyond understanding a problem and started finding ways to actually change things.
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6. It also made me realise how complicated people are. Someone might come to you wanting confidence or better boundaries, but there is a whole human being underneath that goal, complete with history, relationships, emotions and ways of coping.
7. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know. I wanted to feel properly equipped for the deeper things people trusted me with, so as my coaching training was ending, I began what became four years of counselling and psychotherapy training.
8. Along the way, I also qualified in hypnotherapy. I’d experienced its impact personally first. At some of the lowest points in my life, when I felt completely stuck, hypnotherapy was one of the few things that seemed to get through in a different way. I went on to experience it several times over the years, and it left me fascinated by the thoughts, beliefs and patterns we aren’t always consciously aware of, and what can shift when talking and thinking things through hasn’t quite been enough.
9. That curiosity also led me towards more creative ways of working. Sometimes an image, a card, a piece of writing, a visual exercise or simply approaching something from an unexpected angle can open up something that talking alone hasn’t quite reached. Sometimes talking is exactly what you need. Sometimes another way in helps you notice something you hadn’t been able to see before.
10. All of that is part of why I work the way I do now. The more I’ve learned, both personally and professionally, the less interested I’ve become in pretending there is one perfect way to help a person. I never want to become so attached to a particular model that I stop seeing the person sitting in front of me.
Being trusted with the important stuff in somebody’s life is a privilege, and I think I owe it to the people I work with to keep learning, questioning and getting better at what I do.
✦ My Story ✦
I started by
trying to understand myself
My journey hasn't been straightforward, but every step has shaped the way I work with women today.
7. The more I learned, the more I wanted to know. I wanted to feel properly equipped for the deeper things people trusted me with, so as my coaching training was ending, I began what became four years of counselling and psychotherapy training.
3. When I eventually went to therapy myself, I realised how much I didn’t know. I’d heard people talk about boundaries, obviously, but I didn’t really know what one looked like. Nobody had ever taught me how to work that out, let alone how to put one into words and hold it when somebody didn’t like it. I know first-hand that something as seemingly simple as saying no can feel anything but simple when you’ve spent years learning to keep other people happy.
4. I was lucky enough to work with an incredible therapist, and that experience changed a lot for me. It gave me language for things I hadn’t had words for and helped me question ideas I’d carried around for years. Looking back, I think a lot of my own change started with a ridiculously small amount of self-love. Maybe only 1%. Just enough to think, maybe I’m worth doing something about this for.
2. Self-help books were one of the first places I went looking for answers. Over the years, that became a much bigger process of understanding myself, my relationships, my body, my self-worth and my tendency to people-please.
Training & Professional Practice
✶ Psychotherapy & Counselling
✶ Additional Training & Professional Development
I continue to undertake professional development in areas that complement the work I do with clients.
Selected additional training includes:
✦ Diploma in Modern Applied Psychology (DiMAP) — Academy of Applied Psychology
✦ Creative Therapeutic Techniques: Inner Child Work, Anger, Self-Compassion & Boundaries
✦ Creative Therapeutic Approaches: Drama Triangle, Timelines & Psychodynamic Perspectives, Imposter Syndrome
✦ Working Creatively with Fairy Tales
✦ Safeguarding Adults & Children, Levels 1 & 2
✦ Animas ICF-accredited Transformational Coaching Diploma
✶ Coaching
✶ Hypnotherapy
✦ GHSC Accredited Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma
✶ Professional Practice
I’m a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and work in accordance with the NCPS Ethical Framework.
My practice includes ongoing clinical supervision, alongside regular peer support and reflective practice with other professionals. I also hold professional insurance and continue to undertake training and CPD as my practice develops.
Being trusted with somebody’s personal experiences is something I take seriously. Continuing to learn, reflect on my work and practise ethically isn’t an extra part of the job to me. It’s part of doing the job properly.
I’m a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and work in accordance with the NCPS Ethical Framework.
My practice includes ongoing clinical supervision, alongside regular peer support and reflective practice with other professionals. I also hold professional insurance and continue to undertake training and CPD as my practice develops.
Being trusted with somebody’s personal experiences is something I take seriously. Continuing to learn, reflect on my work and practise ethically isn’t an extra part of the job to me. It’s part of doing the job properly.
✶ Coaching
A Little More
About Me
I’m happiest somewhere between barefoot in nature and curled up somewhere cosy with a book. Being outside is one of my favourite ways to reset, but I’m equally content with candles lit, Enya playing, something creative on the go and absolutely nowhere I need to be.
I’m a big believer in keeping hold of the things that bring you joy. I love pink, whimsical clothes, tiny frogs, cute ghosts, tarot cards, and I try to live in a way younger me would have thought was incredibly cool. I love learning new things. In fact, I recently taught myself to crochet (it’s harder than it looks). As for books, give me a huge fantasy world, a painfully slow-burn romance and a little spice, and I’m sorted.
I love people and good conversation, but I need plenty of time in my own little world too. My female friendships are incredibly important to me, creativity keeps me grounded, and I’m still waiting for the day I finally feel like a proper adult.
I’m increasingly convinced it isn’t coming.
And I’m actually quite happy about that.
You don’t need to know exactly what kind of support you need before you begin. We can figure that out together.
Ready to make
yourself a priority?
Ready to make yourself a priority?