About Me
I am a warm and experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist offering individual therapy in Hackney. I am BACP accredited and provide both short-term and open-ended therapy. I offer a calm, thoughtful, and non-judgmental space in which to explore, make connections, and get support with difficult feelings.
In addition to working privately I currently work in the NHS as a psychotherapist in Sexual Health and also have experience working in university counselling and community services. I’ve worked with clients with a range of issues, including depression, anxiety and panic, bereavement, childhood trauma, challenges with sex and intimacy, and the emotional impacts of illness and chronic conditions.
My training was at Birkbeck, University of London where I graduated with an MSc with distinction in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy. I also have a background in English literature and bring that attention to language, narratives, and images into the work. I have a particular interest in how our personal stories sit within wider histories.
I write and teach in the field, with a particular focus on sexuality, gender and relationship diversity. My work with LGBTQI+ people is affirming and I work with queer and trans experience, non-monogamy, and kink. I hold these identities and experiences as important and vital without assuming they are why you’ve come to therapy.
ABOUT THERAPY
Therapy can be a safe and supportive space to look at a specific problem or to shift more long-standing feelings or difficulties. It can help people make sense of chaotic periods of time, or allow them to get more connected to their feelings.
Coming to therapy, you might have a specific issue in mind, or want to work together to get clearer about a feeling or decision. People get in touch with me feeling stuck, down, anxious or unhappy, often without being sure why. Others feel ready to face long-held and painful memories or experiences. Sessions are led by the concerns you bring. We work together to understand what is going on and find a way forward.
My practice of psychodynamic therapy holds a balanced focus that allows us to look back to understand the past, explore current situations, and connect to unconscious motivations and pressures. We pay attention to the ‘here and now’, reflect on the experience of being in the therapy room, and use what we learn from that to shift and expand patterns in relationships. While we might look back to family patterns or inward to feelings and emotions experienced in the body, I also recognize the impacts of structures of inequality and prejudice on both the inner and outer world.
Therapy is a chance to speak and listen in different ways: to slow down, zoom in and explore, or come-up for air to find a wider perspective. Psychodynamic ways of working can be creative. We might look at memories, dreams, encounters and experiences in wide-ranging and open ways. We’ll listen for the unconscious, becoming aware of the forces that shape and motivate you.
Appointments and Fees
I offer both short-term and open-ended therapy. Sessions are 50 minutes long and are weekly at a regular time.
My fee is £70 for 50 minute sessions. Initial appointments are 1 hour and are also £70. I hold a limited number of reduced-cost places.
An initial session gives us a chance to think together about what has brought you to therapy. In this hour-long session we will explore what would be the best way of working, short term (for example for 3–6 months) or open-ended. We can get a sense of what it feels like in the room together and then, if you’d like to begin therapy, we can arrange a regular time.
Location
I practice from therapy rooms in Hackney at Studio 9, 450 Kingsland Rd, E8 4AE. This is between Dalston Junction and Haggerston Overground stations.
PUBLICATIONS
Queer Relationships: Unmapped Intimacies in Same Sex Couples and other Identities: Psychoanalytic Perspectives published by Routledge, 2021 (READ MORE)
Contact
alice@alicekentridge.co.uk
+44 (0)7545 480 678
Contact me by email or telephone to arrange an initial meeting
or ask any questions.