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Cognitive Analytic Therapy
What is CAT Therapy?
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a structured, time-limited therapy that helps you recognise and change repeating patterns in how you relate to yourself and others. CAT integrates cognitive and relational ideas, with a clear focus on understanding what keeps difficulties going and building new ways of responding. At Hampstead Psychology, we offer CAT therapy in Hampstead and Marylebone, London, as well as online across the UK and internationally.
How CAT Works
CAT is based on the idea that current emotional difficulties are often shaped by earlier experiences and coping patterns that once made sense, but can become limiting over time — especially in close relationships or under pressure. Working collaboratively with your psychologist, you’ll map out these patterns, understand how they developed, and notice how they show up in day-to-day life. CAT provides a clear structure for making sense of cycles that repeat, and practical ways to shift them, so change is grounded in both insight and action.
What CAT Can Help With
CAT can be helpful for relationship difficulties and interpersonal conflict, low self-esteem and self-criticism, anxiety and depression, emotional overwhelm, complex trauma and attachment-related difficulties, perfectionism and people-pleasing, emotional avoidance, and repeating patterns in work or personal life.
Private CAT Therapy with Experienced Psychologists
CAT can be a good fit for high-functioning individuals who feel stuck in familiar patterns, even when they understand what’s happening and have tried hard to change. We offer CAT therapy delivered by experienced clinical and counselling psychologists, providing a confidential, reflective space where therapy stays focused and helps the work move forward.
Take the next step
Contact us to book a consultation with one of our psychologists trained in CAT, or learn more about our psychotherapy services in London.
Explore more about our relationship therapy, or trauma-informed care in London.
Meet the team
Hampstead Psychology offers therapy delivered by a senior team of clinical and counselling psychologists with deep experience across a range of presentations. We take care to match you with the right clinician and to hold the work with clarity and structure, so therapy feels purposeful from the outset. Clients choose us when they want high-quality psychological care that is discreet, steady and grounded in evidence.
