History
My journey began with a love of the stage. Acting taught me about our “multiple selves”, how we take on roles, inhabit them, and sometimes let them go.
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Climbing entered my life alongside drama, offering a different kind of truth: no audience, just breath, focus and the next move. Both shaped my understanding of presence, risk and identity.
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I eventually chose a more conventional career, working with care leavers and people leaving long-term institutions. Many were labelled “untreatable,” yet what I saw was the lasting impact of early relational trauma and a system that often lacked imagination. I felt drawn to work at this “edge of therapeutic opportunity.”
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Training in psychotherapy and discovering compassion-focused therapy gave me a framework rooted in neuroscience, attachment and evolution. My experience in a therapeutic community then transformed my practice, revealing the power of shared responsibility and group process.
Over time, I developed a rolling compassion-focused group model, integrating structure with openness, action methods and play. Slowing down in breath, tone and pace — became central. Regulation before the group, like a climber’s warm-up, proved essential.
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I have long been drawn to those seen as “too difficult,” motivated by conviction and perhaps something personal. My training and supervisory pathway offers a compassionate, creative approach to psychotherapy as well as staff support and an invitation to approach this serious work with both depth and playfulness.
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My hope is that this supports your own journey in compassion.
I began wanting a stage.
What I hope I have built instead is a space where we can all find one
but with ropes, anchors, warmth, and a compassionate audience.
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Business Partner
My Name is Dion Karepa Lucre, the business partner and husband of Dr Kate Lucre. I have witness the development of Dr Lucre from when we first met at 20 years of age. Dr Kate Lucre has always been committed to her profession and shown ample amounts of compassion to her patients, work colleagues and family. It has been a pleasure to work alongside Dr Kate Lucre over many years.
Mobilising Compassion
Mobilising compassion in groups or staff‑support settings is about creating conditions where people can access, practice, and apply compassion together. In Dr. Kate Lucre’s work, this becomes a powerful way to shift cultures shaped by shame, fear, or burnout into ones grounded in courage, connection, and emotional safeness.
Whether in therapy groups or staff teams, mobilising compassion helps people move from threat‑driven patterns to more balanced, connected, and courageous ways of relating. It’s one of the reasons Dr. Lucre’s work has been influential: it gives people a practical, embodied way to transform how they experience themselves and others.