Kara Rosenberg
People often come to me when the way they have been living stops working quietly. From the outside, things may look fine: the demanding job handled, the family held together, the friend everyone else leans on. Inside, there is anxiety that arrives at 3am, a flatness that will not lift, or a growing sense that the life you built and the person you are have drifted apart. If that sounds familiar, you are exactly who I work with: capable, high-functioning adults who hold a great deal for other people and rarely show what it costs them.
I am an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, which means I shape the approach around you rather than fitting you to a method. The relationship between us comes first, always; decades of research agree that the bond between client and therapist is one of the strongest predictors of how well therapy works, and my practice is built on that finding. Alongside the relationship, I pay close attention to what happens as we talk, in the room and in the body, and, where it helps, we look at where a pattern first began. There is no set programme of techniques. The work is built around you, and change grows out of the relationship itself. My practice is grounded in both science and feeling. I trained clinically within NHS Talking Therapies, working with anxiety and depression at all levels of severity, and I hold an MSc in Psychology, accredited by the British Psychological Society, which I completed with Distinction. To me, research and feeling belong together: the science offers a map of how people think, change and heal, and the therapy room is where that map meets what you actually feel. I work most often with anxiety and panic; depression and low mood; stress and burnout; low self-esteem and self-criticism; OCD and intrusive thoughts, the subject of my Master’s research, now heading for publication; adult ADHD; relationship and family difficulties; disordered eating and body image; difficulties with sex and intimacy; women’s health; and life transitions and questions of identity. I have a special interest in low self-esteem, which so often lies quietly beneath the difficulties that bring people to therapy. Before retraining as a therapist, I spent fifteen years in international finance and consulting, working at a fast pace across countries, cultures and languages. Alongside that career, I counselled men in prison. Both worlds taught me the same lesson: people can begin again from anywhere. That background also means I understand, from the inside, the particular pressures of demanding professional lives.
I am a Registered Member of the BACP and hold a Diploma in Integrative Counselling. I see clients in Clapham, and in Central London, near London Bridge/Bank, and online, on weekdays. Sessions are £80, and we begin with a free 20-minute introductory call, so you can get a sense of me and how I work.
Online and/or telephone appointments are available.
