“To reflect deeply is to live fully.”

Hello, I’m Lee Grant – a qualified psychotherapist working with adults and couples in private practice, both in-person (Welwyn, Hertfordshire U.K) and online internationally.

My Path to becoming a Therapist -

My path to psychotherapy has, thankfully, not been a straight one. My story, like so many of the clients I now work with, is layered, a weaving together of my cross-cultural upbringing, my fascination in science, my love of creativity, family, and the deep questions of what it means to feel truly awake to the full spectrum of human experience.

The Scientist

My academic beginnings were in biomedical science. I have always been fascinated by how the human body holds both fragility and resilience, and by the powerful insights offered through research. I became consumed with the how and why of the body and the invisible mechanisms that shape our everyday experience.

These questions still guide me, though now I apply them not to cells under a microscope, but to the physiological expressions of emotions in my clients: how our bodies hold, express, or suppress our experiences.

The Creative

Although I loved the world of science, my heart longed for something more. I shifted into the creative sphere, training in fashion design and then eventually opening my own sustainable label . For some, this may seem an unexpected leap, but for me it was a natural shift: from insides to outsides, two sides of the same coin of human behaviour.

Creativity gave form to what couldn’t be expressed in data alone. Design taught me about the revealing expressions of texture, colour, and nuance and that what’s hidden in plain sight can speak volumes, if you know how to look.

Today, in the therapy room, I draw from the same artistic sensitivity: listening not only to words, but to tone, gesture, metaphor, facial expressions, and silence, the unspoken fabric of a person’s story.

The Therapist

When I re-trained as an adult and couples psychotherapist, my two worlds of science and art fused seamlessly into a vibrant tapestry of perspective and understanding of the human condition.

• Psychodynamic therapy gave me depth and an understanding of the soil from which we grow our roots and how that shapes our trajectory, though never defines our final path.
  
• Existential therapy gave me the courage to sit with the intense discomfort of uncertainty, choice, responsibilities and expectations. It helped engage with life’s most frightening and difficult questions.
  
• Relational approaches taught me the art of being with another's process in practice, and the capacity to hold their pain together. To understand a human being’s experience through their perspective, and to enhance the space in which they can explore it more deeply.
  

Each modality echoed and enriched what I had already been learning (often unknowingly) for more than 20 years: that science and creativity are not separate worlds, but threads that belong entwined together. Where one is systemic, the other is symbolic. Together, they form a fuller, more vibrant understanding of what it is to be alive.

The Human

Growing up, my family moved between many countries and cities. I was immersed in different cultures, hearing different languages and learning about people’s ways of life; what guided them, how they expressed themselves, what gave them purpose and meaning, and what shaped not just their choices but their sense of identity and belonging. At times I felt like the outsider, but I used this vantage point to muse over my many questions. This curiosity that has stayed with me and continues to shape how I meet clients from diverse backgrounds today.

Alongside these experiences & career shifts came the other areas of life: dating, partnering, step-parenting & parenting. Navigating the rich complexities of falling in and growing more deeply in love, responsibility, purpose, and meaning, the personal and the professional pulls within me, whilst discerning what was mine alone and what belonged to others.

These experiences revealed parts of me I didn’t know I was harbouring. Exploring them was initially frightening, but gradually softened me, humbled me, and at times broke me open, illuminating a brighter, richer path to grow through. They remind me daily (sometimes hourly) what it’s like to be on both sides of the struggle: to want to “get it right”, and to realise that life rarely sticks to plan. My young family and closest friends ground me in this with love daily.

The Ethos of Rollswood Therapy

This is why Rollswood Therapy has become what it is today:

• A place for reflection without judgement.
  
• A place to release what weighs you down.
  
• A place to rejoice in being human.
  

My story and style are not about 'mastering life', but about staying insatiably curious and open to it, about ourselves, others, love, meaning, purpose, connection, communication, and validation. It's about slowing the chaotic absurdity of being human just enough to glimpse how painfully beautiful it is in all its complexity and nuance.

What I offer my clients is not answers but an invitation.

An invitation to explore your story with curiosity and empathy, and to discover your own true insights with the compassion that grows when you realise we are all stitched together by both fragility and resilience.

I don’t believe therapy should feel clinical. I believe it should feel human.

Areas of Focus

• Anxiety & depression
• Emotional numbness or overwhelm
• Inner criticism, shame, or low self-worth
• Addictions of all types.
• Feeling invisible in families or partnerships.
• Identity issues, self-expression, and creativity
• Couples or parents navigating conflict, disconnection, or change across all family structures, from traditional to blended or solo parenting.
• Existential themes—meaning, purpose, mortality, freedom, and stuckness
  

Qualifications & Memberships

• BACP Member # 01015717
• PGDip in Psychotherapy & Counselling (Regents University)
• BA in Product design for the fashion industry.
• BSc in Biomedical Science.
• Additional COSRT training in Couples Therapy (including multiple partnered and psychosexual issues).
• Ongoing CPD in Internal Family Systems, Gestalt Therapy, trauma-informed therapy, EMDR and other creative modalities.
  
  

A Closing Invitation

I keep a limited number of spaces for clients to ensure we can work deeply and meaningfully. If you would like to discuss whether therapy at Rollswood could be right for you, I invite you to get in touch here.
You don’t need to come to therapy with a diagnosis, a label, or a plan.

You just need to bring yourself.

Warmest wishes,

Lee Grant

BSc, BA, PGDip