Katalin Gardos

Katalin works as a psychotherapist since 2001. She provides short dynamic psychotherapy. After graduating in Hungary she worked in Budapest at a psychiatric department with in- and outpatients. Later she moved to London and worked with young people at the Brent Centre for Young People providing therapy-like services geared to the special needs of adolescents.  She was also a facilitator at a therapeutic community at Arbours Association. Before moving Cambridge she lived in Hungary for some years and worked at MentalPort,  a psychoanalytically oriented private clinic.

Her approach is psychodynamic. She uses psychoanalytic principles in the following setting: patient and therapist sit face-to-face and meet once or twice a week with either an open-ended contract or for a fixed number  of sessions (20-25) as agreed on the first meeting.

 

The aim of the therapeutic process is to understand the patient?s inner world, especially their present and past relationships.  The relationship between the patient and the therapist plays a crucial role in this process, also as a model for other relationships.  The focus is on the unconscious patterns: to be able to identify them and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them.

Anything said on the sessions is strictly confidential.

Katalin sees patients with a wide range of difficulties such as family-, relationship-, and child-related problems; depression, stress, and anxiety; dealing with difficulties in adolescence; improving self-knowledge.