About Catherine
Catherine Cross is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She works with adults dealing with loss, relationship strain, parenting challenges and a range of day-to-day difficulties. Catherine aims to create a calm, down-to-earth space where people can talk honestly and make sense of what they are feeling.
She trained and works as an integrative counsellor and is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
Background and approach
Catherine has worked for the NHS, at a local children’s centre supporting parents, and in her own independent practice. She also helps construction industry workers through a charity service and has supported parents of children with special educational needs in schools. Catherine has a particular interest in neurodiversity and how it affects mental health.
That interest informs how she talks through challenges like ADHD, communication problems and sensory-related stress. She tries to tailor conversations to each person’s way of thinking and coping. In sessions she combines empathic listening with practical tools to manage mood and behaviour.
Cognitive approaches are used to spot unhelpful thinking and develop alternative responses. Longer term themes such as attachment and loss are worked through using psychodynamic and existential ideas when helpful. Her style is warm and straightforward.
People can expect help with anxiety, depression, grief, parenting pressures, addiction concerns and other common struggles. Catherine encourages small, realistic steps so life feels more manageable and decisions become clearer.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the client’s lead. It helps people feel understood and start to make sense of their feelings at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits by teaching practical ways to test and change thoughts and behaviours.
Psychodynamic and existential ideas are used to look at longer standing patterns and life meaning. These approaches can help when someone wants to understand why certain issues keep repeating or to work through loss and identity questions.
Catherine treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try straightforward techniques first and adapt the work as needed. That way the approach matches a person’s needs, circumstances and preferences rather than being imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives and rhythms. Video calls suit in-depth conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions can use less bandwidth and work well on a short break. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, shorter reflections or when typing feels easier. These options give flexibility so people can attend around work, caring duties or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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