Finding paths to greater wellbeing
and connection for individuals and organisations
Finding paths to greater wellbeing
and connection for individuals and organisations
About Kate
Kate has worked within the NHS for 19 years, including in London trusts (Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare, London). Most recently she has worked in Gloucestershire as a Clinical Psychologist Resilience Trainer, working with frontline hospital NHS staff experiencing stress and burnout post Covid-19. Read her recent blog post, published by Oxford Mindfulness:
https://oxfordmindfulness.org/building-a-mindfulness-community-an-antidote-to-burnout-in-the-nhs
Alongside her NHS work she supervised, taught and trained others to become Clinical Psychologists, working as a Clinical and Academic Tutor on the Doctoral training programme at Salomons, Canterbury Christ Church University for 7 years. She now inputs to specific projects for the Doctoral programme.
Kate is passionate about working with individuals, clinicians and organisations, sharing evidence based ideas in ways that can meaningfully support people’s wellbeing and (re)connection with themselves, others, and the life they want to lead. She is trained in a range of models including mindfulness, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and narrative therapy.
What we do
We offer:
- Group workshops for individuals to aid (re)connection with yourself, others and the life you want to lead.
- Sessions with teams and organisations that promote psychologically safe cultures which support employee wellbeing and team engagement in the workplace.
- Supervision and facilitation to individual practitioners and to teams, providing a reflective space to further engage with psychologically informed ways of thinking.
A new chapter could start here. Contact us to see if we can help.
Credentials and Publications
Further Professional Training
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) teacher training - Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (2023)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training - Russ Harris (2022, 2023, 2024)
- Compassionate Mind Training 'Train the trainer' course - Balanced Minds (2021)
- Tree of Life Level 5 Training - led by Ncazelo Mlilo of Phola (2020)
- Compassion Focused Therapy for Groups - led by Kate Lucre of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (2018)
- Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) 5 day intensive - Center for MSC (2017)
- Compassion Focused Therapy Advanced Clinical Skills - led by Prof Paul Gilbert of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (Nov 2016)
- Supervisor training - Salomons, CCCU, eligible for entry onto the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (2016, 2017)
- Associate Fellow Status of the Higher Education Academy - Salomons, Canterbury Christ Church University (2016)
- Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher training - with Prof Mark Williams of the OMF (2011)
Published Work
- Foxwell, K. (2025). Building a mindfulness community- an antidote to burnout in the NHS? Oxford Mindfulness blog, Jan 2025. https://oxfordmindfulness.org/building-a-mindfulness-community-an-antidote-to-burnout-in-the-nhs
- Foxwell, K., Strohmaier, S., Jones, F., & Nigbur, D. (2024). Having, making and feeling home as a European immigrant in the United Kingdom post-Brexit referendum: An interpretative phenomenological study. British Journal of Social Psychology, 00, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12798
- Parham, S., Ibrahim, J., & Foxwell, K. (2021). Could the Tree of Life Model Be a Useful Approach for UK Mental Health Contexts? A Review of the Literature. Narrative Works, 9(2), 44–70. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/31820
- Foxwell, K.R. (2015). Loneliness: A call for community approaches. Faculty of the Psychology of Older People newsletter, 131, 57-60. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsfpop.2015.1.131.57
- Foxwell, K. R., & Scott, S. E. (2011). Coping together and apart: Exploring how patients and their caregivers manage terminal head and neck cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 29(3), 308-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/07347332.2011.563343
- Foxwell, K.R., & Scott, S.E. (2010). Exploring the concerns and needs of patients with terminal head and neck cancer and their caregivers. Social Science & Dentistry, 1(2), 88-96. https://ssdopen.com/media/articles/Exploring_the_concerns_and_needs_of_patients_with_terminal_head_and_neck_cancer_and_their_caregivers.pdf
- Foxwell, K.R., Ali, J., Hirani, V., Flower, P., & Wood, D. (2005). Expectancy of weight gain in eating disorder services: Consistency in Practice? Published in poster format at the 7th London International Eating Disorders Conference.
