About Catherine
Catherine Baines is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with three years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and relationship concerns. Catherine aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and a non-judgemental space to talk.
She prioritises clear, practical conversations that focus on what feels most difficult right now. Sessions are straightforward and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
People can expect to talk through thoughts and feelings, identify small changes that might help, and set simple goals to try between meetings. Catherine works with a wide range of life challenges including grief and loss, coping with big life changes, career stress, and issues around intimacy and family of origin.
She also offers support for concerns such as eating and sleeping difficulties, addiction, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes hands-on counselling work in the United Kingdom. Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts her style to match each person's needs.
She focuses on creating a calm space where people can explore their experience and build practical coping skills. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Catherine helps clients work at their own pace, with straightforward guidance and encouragement as they try new approaches and cope with life’s stresses.
Practical therapeutic approaches and online access
Catherine works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for worries, stress and depressive symptoms.Another approach she uses emphasises building skills and routines. It helps with sleep difficulties, coping after loss, managing cravings or dealing with overwhelming emotions by breaking problems into manageable tasks and practising new responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine collaborates with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and style. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy is offered via video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and suit those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support or when shorter, more frequent contact helps maintain progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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