“To reflect deeply is to live fully.”

About Lee Grant

Hello, I’m Lee Grant, a qualified psychotherapist and registered member of the BACP. I offer individual therapy, couples therapy, couples counselling and parenting support in private practice at Rollswood Therapy in Welwyn, Hertfordshire and online.

My work is integrative, reflective and depth-oriented. I work with adults, couples and parents who may be experiencing anxiety, burnout, emotional overwhelm, relationship strain, parenting pressure, identity questions, low self-worth or a private sense that life no longer feels aligned.

At the heart of my work is a simple but serious belief: therapy should be clinically thoughtful without feeling cold, and deeply human without losing its rigour.

My path into psychotherapy

My path into psychotherapy has thankfully not been a straight one. It has been shaped by science, creativity, cross-cultural experience, family life and a long-standing fascination with what helps people feel more awake, connected and alive.

Before training as a psychotherapist, I studied biomedical science. I was drawn to the body’s intelligence: its fragility, resilience, adaptation and the invisible mechanisms that shape everyday experience. Those questions still guide me, though now I am interested in how emotion is held and expressed through the body: how we tense, shut down, protect, perform, endure and recover.

I later moved into the creative world, training in fashion design and founding a sustainable label. For me, this was not a rejection of science, but an extension of the same curiosity. Design taught me to attend to texture, colour, form, proportion and what is communicated without words. It deepened my interest in the visible and invisible ways people express who they are.

These two strands continue to shape my work as a therapist. I listen not only to what is said, but to tone, rhythm, metaphor, gesture, silence and the small details that often carry meaning before they can be fully named.

How I work

As an integrative psychotherapist, I draw on psychodynamic, existential, relational and body-informed approaches.

Psychodynamic therapy helps us explore how earlier experiences, unconscious expectations and relationship patterns may still be shaping the present.

Existential therapy creates space for the larger questions of life: meaning, choice, responsibility, loss, uncertainty, freedom and the kind of life you want to build.

Relational approaches place the therapeutic relationship at the heart of the work. They help us notice how patterns emerge between people and how new ways of relating can begin.

Body-informed work helps us pay attention to the nervous system, emotional regulation and the ways experience can be carried physically, not only cognitively.

My approach is not advice-led or formulaic. I work collaboratively, helping you slow down what feels tangled or overwhelming so that it can become more understandable, more workable and less powerful in the dark.

The human thread

Growing up, my family moved between different countries, cultures and languages. This gave me an early awareness of identity, belonging and the many ways people make meaning, express emotion and locate themselves in the world.

At times, that experience carried the feeling of being an outsider. Over time, it also became a vantage point. It sharpened my curiosity about people: what shapes them, what protects them, what wounds them, what brings them alive, and what helps them feel at home in themselves and with others.

That curiosity continues to shape how I meet clients today, including those navigating cultural complexity, intercultural relationships, family expectations, questions of belonging, or the tension between who they have been expected to be and who they are becoming.

Alongside my professional path, life itself has remained one of my greatest teachers: partnership, parenting, step-parenting, friendship, responsibility, love, rupture, repair and the ongoing work of trying to live with more honesty and less defence. These experiences keep me close to the ordinary difficulty of being human: the wish to get things right, and the humbling truth that life rarely stays tidy for long.

The ethos of Rollswood Therapy

Rollswood Therapy grew from the meeting point between science and creativity, reflection and lived change, depth and practicality.

It is a place to reflect without judgement.

A place to release what no longer needs to govern you.

A place to make room again for vitality, connection and meaning.

The work is not about mastering life or becoming a perfected version of yourself. It is about becoming more honest, more awake and more able to live from a place of clarity rather than fear, habit or pressure.

I do not offer ready-made answers. I offer a thoughtful therapeutic space in which your story can be explored with care, curiosity and compassion, so that your own insight can begin to emerge.

Areas of focus

I work with adults, couples and parents around a range of concerns, including:

• Anxiety, low mood, burnout and emotional overwhelm
• Inner criticism, shame and low self-worth
• Emotional numbness, stuckness or loss of aliveness
• Relationship difficulties, communication breakdown and recurring conflict
• Couples therapy, couples counselling and relationship repair
• Betrayal, disconnection, intimacy difficulties and uncertainty about the future
• Parenting pressure, co-parenting, step-parenting and blended family dynamics
• Identity questions, belonging, self-expression and creativity
• Family patterns, inherited roles and feeling invisible in relationships
• Existential themes such as meaning, purpose, mortality, freedom and choice

Qualifications and memberships

• Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy — MBACP
• PGDip in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London
• BA in Product Design for the Fashion Industry
• BSc in Biomedical Science
• Additional couples and relationship therapy training through a COSRT-accredited institution, including partnered and psychosexual issues
• Ongoing CPD in Internal Family Systems, Gestalt therapy, trauma-informed therapy, EMDR-informed learning and creative therapeutic approaches

A closing invitation

I keep a limited number of client spaces so the work can remain thoughtful, steady and meaningful.

You do not need to come to therapy with a diagnosis, a label or a polished explanation of what is wrong. You may simply have a sense that something feels strained, stuck or no longer sustainable.

If you would like to explore whether therapy at Rollswood could be right for you, you are welcome to book a free 15-minute consultation.

Warmest wishes,

Lee Grant

BSc, BA, PGDip, MBACP