Spectrum Therapy

Lotta Kitchen

Spectrum practitioner

Lotta Kitchen trained at Spectrum and she is a registered psychotherapist with the UKCP. Since her accreditation she has continued further training by completing the couples training at Spectrum, as well as attending various CPD courses.

Lotta has been in private practice since 2002 and she works with individuals and couples. She runs an ongoing group for women who are mothers. She is a member of the Spectrum referral team. She also has a private practice in London’s Muswell Hill.

Background

Lotta first became involved in personal development in 1993. She started her training at Spectrum in the late 1990s. Lotta’s previous career was as a lawyer in the City and in Stockholm, Sweden. In this role she developed an attention to detail and an ability to conceptualise information which she has carried forward to her work as a psychotherapist.

Lotta’s work in the voluntary sector included bereavement counselling and in a supporting role to families.

How Lotta works

Lotta’s orientation is humanistic and she draws primarily on Gestalt psychotherapy, as well as elements of formative psychology and transactional analysis. She believes that therapy and counselling enable us to raise our awareness of our behaviours, our patterns and our less effective ways of dealing with life and relationships. By paying attention to the details of our process we may find new ways of relating and responding to ourselves and others.

Lotta is interested in supporting parents, both in their role as parents and as individuals beyond this role. Being Swedish, Lotta brings an interest in multicultural aspects to her work. She works with a broad range of issues such as loss and bereavement, anger, difficulties in forming and managing relationships, sexuality, life transitions, parenting, communication and low self-esteem.