When burnout leaves you running on empty, Depth & the City helps rediscover your resilience and restore a sense of balance.

Depth therapy can help you to regain clarity, motivation, and confidence to thrive at the highest level of your profession.

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Burnout

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Has success come at the cost of your energy, drive, and happiness—and are you ready to change that?

Overwhelm has become your new normal.

The pressure to perform can leave even the strongest leaders feeling exhausted, on edge, or disconnected from the things that once mattered most.

In our sessions, we take time to unpack what’s driving your burnout—beyond the obvious demands and routines. Together, we’ll look beneath the surface to understand what your mind and body are telling you.

My approach is compassionate, modern, and centred on you. I’ll help you reconnect to your strengths, restore clarity, and build a way forward that truly fits your life and ambitions.

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Why Burnout Therapy with Depth & the City?

  • We work with Executives who...

    • Struggle to switch off, even outside working hours

    • Feel disconnected from joy or motivation in their career

    • Worry that stress is starting to affect their relationships

    • Are tired of hiding exhaustion behind a professional facade

    • Want support that treats them as a whole person, not just a performer

    Our clients have achieved extraordinary things—but are privately carrying exhaustion, frustration, or a sense that their success is coming at too high a cost. If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

  • The D&tC Approach

    Bespoke Therapy: Sessions are tailored to your specific pressures, ambitions, and values. Our therapists have decades of experience in high-pressure environments. We know the challenges, the victories, and how it feels when it’s getting on top of you.

    Real Conversation: We go beyond surface fixes and dig deep, challenging old patterns compassionately. We’re not handing out platitudes - we’ve been there too and will both challenge and support you.

    Modern Strategies: Drawing on the proven strategies of depth psychology, we create sustainable change—not quick wins that fade.

    Consistent Support: The work continues between sessions, ensuring the insights translate to lasting progress.

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“Burnout isn’t always obvious - it can be silent, gradual, and masked by success.”

Depth therapy can help you navigate:

• Subtle signs of burnout and chronic stress

• Loss of meaning or motivation in your work

• Persistent anxiety or low mood, even when things seem ‘fine’ on the surface

• Bigger questions about purpose, identity, and direction

“Burnout recovery isn’t simply a matter of waiting it out—Depth Therapy provides real tools to address what “just rest” doesn’t even touch.”

Tools & Insights You’ll Develop:

  • Identify signs of misalignment before burnout takes hold

  • Discern the line between healthy challenge and compromising your values

  • Run an Integrity Review to distinguish sources of inspiration and sources of depletion

  • Recognize when your Persona—the professional mask—may be creating distance from your true self and how to realign

  • Explore and embody helpful archetypes to access new strengths and perspectives as you face challenges and change

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About Kathleen

Hi, I’m Kathleen, the founder of Depth & the City.

I hold an MBA from London Business School and spent over two decades in leadership in the tech industry. Despite a successful career, I experienced burnout and a profound loss of meaning—challenges that inspired me to become a Depth Therapist.

I believe Depth Therapy is especially powerful for Executives and High-Achieving Professionals facing emotional and psychological struggles. Cognitive approaches alone only scratch the surface, and therapy that offers just listening and gentle reflection risks keeping you stuck in the same patterns. The unconscious mind, if ignored, will continue to influence you in ways you may not understand. Depth Therapy offers a way to engage with these hidden layers, opening the door to profound transformation.

Education & Credentials

  • Accredited Member, BACP

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling(with Merit) (Level 7)

  • Diploma in Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity Therapy (Level 6)

  • Trainee Candidate, Psychoanalysis, CG Jung Insitute, Zurich CH.

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Get started in 4 steps

  • Check the schedule here and choose a time that suits you for a 15-20 minute free consultation.

  • Connect directly with me, ask questions, and discover if expert-led depth psychotherapy aligns with your needs.

  • Schedule your first appointment at a time that suits you and begin your depth therapy journey with tailored, professional support.

  • Continue your growth through ongoing, personalised sessions—building trust, insight, and lasting change with expert support tailored to your unique journey.

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Let’s do this together

Experience a truly modern, expert approach to depth therapy—where real insight meets genuine compassion, tailored for City professionals ready for lasting change

How Depth Therapy Works

Depth Therapy is not about quick fixes or checklists. You won’t find worksheets or rigid tools here - you are treated as a thinking, feeling adult with a complex inner life. The work we do goes beyond cognition — we engage emotions and soul, honouring the full spectrum of your experience. You’ll be invited to explore the unconscious parts of yourself, which are inherently unknowable and mysterious. This exploration requires curiosity and creativity as much as insight.

The space we create together offers more time and room for you to regulate and reflect — it might be one of the few places in your life where you can pause, wonder, and even get things wrong without pressure. If you’re open to it, we might use additional tools like drawing, guided meditations, visualisation, or dreamwork to deepen the process. This is about slow, meaningful transformation, not a race to resolution.

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  • Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

    C.G. Jung