Mrs Kate Busaka

I work online with Google Meet, which has enabled me to work with clients from around the world and to share the often life-changing impact of therapy with more people. For you, the opportunity to connect with the therapeutic process from the comfort of your own home, or in a safe space of your choosing, can also help to reduce anxiety and make therapy a more accessible and viable option. Please email katebusakaconnect@gmail.com or use the online booking form. Relationship and attachment issues - 'We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.' Sigmund Freud. Relationships bring out the best and the worst in all of us. Working on ourselves can support us to understand more fully our choices of partner and our modes of attachment. There are many different challenges that can arise is finding a partner and understanding how we relate to others. Therapy can support us to navigate this process, to avoid the repetition of unhealthy patterns of relating and to develop within us a strong and stable base from which to begin relating to others in more healthy ways. Trauma and Bereavement - 'It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember'. Bessel van der Kolk Trauma and bereavement can affect us profoundly, often causing us to respond to life as if it were still present even when it has long past. The process of working through grief or through the echos of trauma takes patience. Therapy can support us to be curious about how we carry trauma, physically, emotionally and mentally. Through this knowing, we do not undo the past but with courage we may be able to rebuild our relationship to it so that the here and now can be more fully embraced. Overwhelm, Anxiety, and Depression - 'The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.' Carl Jung Now more that ever, many of us are feeling enormous pressure to achieve. This 'need' to achieve can leave us feeling overwhelmed and suffocated. Physical, mental and emotional manifestation of anxiety, overwhelm or depression can be debilitating. Personal development work can support us to disentangle and our desire and creativity from external and internalised pressures so that we can be kinder to ourselves and learn how to live a more satisfying life. 'False Self', Masking & Performance Arts - 'Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.' Donald Winnicott In many ways the world teaches us which parts of us are loveable, good enough, and deserving of praise. Particularly present for people in the performing arts, and for those of us who enmesh their sense of identity with their social status, profession or position, learning to accept one's complete self can be a daunting prospect. Therapy can support us to explore ourselves in our wholeness to discover and reveal the parts of us we have unconsciously hidden and to encourage us to enliven a sense of self satisfaction without the need for external recognition. Childhood Relationships - 'We do as we have been done by'. John Bowlby Our earliest relationships are some of the most impactful in our lives. How we to relate to ourselves and others through our conscious and unconscious learning in those relationships can leave a lasting legacy. Therapy can support us to reframe and reintegrate these experiences to heal, and ultimately to be a good parent to our inner child.