About Catherine
Catherine Dicken is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who offers support for people facing stress and anxiety. She speaks English and draws on four years of practice to help clients facing a wide range of concerns. Catherine aims to make it easier to talk about difficult feelings and to take first steps towards change.
She creates a non-judgemental space where people can say what’s on their minds. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person and on practical ways to move forward.
Background and approach
Conversation is grounded in everyday language rather than clinical jargon. Catherine uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based work to help people notice their patterns and try different ways of relating to themselves and others. She also uses Client-Centred and Mindfulness methods to support emotional awareness and safer self-reflection.
Narrative ideas are used to look at personal stories and reframe unhelpful themes. Over four years she has worked with concerns including grief, relationship and family issues, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, career stress and parenting strains. She also supports people dealing with trauma-related reactions, feelings of shame or isolation, and life changes such as separation or midlife shifts.
Catherine offers sessions online and by phone in English and accepts international clients. Her aim is to help people build clarity, notice options and take small, manageable steps toward a more balanced life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts instead of fighting them, and to focus on values-based actions that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and motivation challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current emotions and reactions, and it helps people build new ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships.Catherine treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss different methods with each person and try to find what fits best with their goals and preferences. Together they will adapt techniques as understanding grows and needs change.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and short check-ins work well through live chat or messaging. These options help people fit sessions around work, travel or daily responsibilities while keeping the therapeutic focus on practical steps and reflection.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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