Relationships, Trauma, Intimacy & Life’s Difficult Questions
When old pattterns no longer work
Kathryn Roe
I work with individuals and couples who are struggling with relationship difficulties, the effects of trauma, challenges around intimacy, major life transitions, or a growing sense that something in life no longer feels sustainable.
Psychotherapy offers a space to share your story, make sense of your experiences, and grow through them.
I provide psychotherapy, EMDR therapy and relationship counselling online and in person from Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
I am a UKCP-registered psychotherapist and supervisor with specialist training in EMDR, extensive experience in relationship/couples therapy, and psychosexual therapy.
Therapy Changes Lives
I offer Transactional Analysis (TA), which can help you understand the unconscious patterns, beliefs and "life script" that continue to shape your relationships, choices and sense of self.
I also provide EMDR, an evidence-based therapy recommended by the NHS for trauma and distressing experiences. EMDR helps the brain process difficult memories so that they no longer carry the same emotional weight in the present.
Therapy is not about being given advice or being told how to live. It is about creating a space where difficult experiences, relationships, emotions and questions can be explored safely and honestly. Whether you come as an individual or as a couple, I aim to offer both warmth and professional expertise as we work together towards greater understanding, healing and change.
"A psychotherapist is not an 'expert' at being human... I am the fellow struggling human being who is prepared to put on their wellington boots and wade into the mud with my client." (Cook, 2025)
Location and Accessibility
My in-person practice in Northallerton is conveniently located with free parking and accessible facilities.
Relationship Therapy
Navigate the challenges and celebrate the strengths of your relationship.
Relationships can bring connection, joy and meaning, but they can also expose our deepest vulnerabilities. Many partners/couples seek therapy when old patterns of communication no longer work, conflicts become repetitive, intimacy feels distant, or life changes place new pressures on the relationship.
Together, we will explore not only the difficulties you are facing, but also the underlying patterns that may be keeping you stuck. My aim is to help you develop greater understanding, strengthen connection, and create meaningful and lasting change.
Partners/Couples commonly seek support around:
• Communication and relationship patterns – recurring arguments, loss of trust, emotional distance, or feeling unheard and unappreciated.
• Intimacy and sexual concerns – differences in desire, sexual difficulties, questions around sexuality or gender identity, and rebuilding emotional and physical closeness.
• Life transitions and change – becoming parents, retirement, empty nesting, health challenges, fertility treatment, or other significant life events that affect the relationship.
• Trauma and past experiences – the impact of childhood experiences, previous relationships, infidelity, loss, grief, anger, or unresolved emotional wounds.
• Meaning, values and the future of the relationship – exploring commitment, separation, divorce, blended families, cultural differences, and questions about what kind of relationship you want to create together.
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