Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist and faculty staff member at Tavistock Relationships. She currently heads Couple Therapy for Depression Training of NHS practitioners nationally and is the clinical lead for Tavistock Relationship’s Parenting services.  In 2019 she developed Behavioural Couple Therapy for Alcohol Misuse and rolled it out as a training programme in a government funded pilot. Kate has also worked in Tavistock Relationship’s Mentalisation Based Therapy service for separated parents in conflict, their specialist adoption service, supervised Tavistock Relationship’s domestic abuse project and Parents as Partners, a group intervention for couples.    

Registered with BPC and BACP, Kate writes and reviews for a variety of publications. She co-edited ‘Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families’, with Christopher Clulow and Andrew Balfour (Routledge, 2018) and is currently editing a Special Edition of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis on Divorce and Separation, due out Spring 2021. Her private practice is in East Sheen, South West London.