About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety and the aftereffects of trauma. She also supports those coping with grief, depression, low self-esteem and life changes. Catherine works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy difficulties, addiction, sleep and eating problems, and workplace or career strain.
She believes people know their own story and brings a collaborative style to sessions.
Background and approach
Catherine emphasises small, practical steps and helps clients build skills to manage thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Work in therapy is paced to match each person’s needs and aims to increase confidence and day-to-day coping. Her approach draws on talk-based, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance-based strategies.
Attachment-focused thinking and client-centred listening shape the way she explores relationship patterns and emotional responses. Dialectical skills are used when people need help tolerating strong emotions and managing difficult situations. Catherine holds the NCPS credential and has four years of professional experience.
She has worked with people who are neurodivergent as well as neurotypical and has supported clients with medical and caregiving challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are open to international clients. Therapy sessions can be arranged at a range of times and Catherine is willing to offer appointments outside her usual schedule by mutual arrangement.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to set up the first appointment.
Approaches that translate to online care
Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on how thoughts, behaviours and feelings interact. In practical online sessions this can mean tracking patterns, testing small experiments and learning new ways to respond to anxious or low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide action; it often suits people wrestling with ongoing anxiety or life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help you choose which methods to try based on your goals and preferences. She adapts techniques so they suit your pace and what you want to achieve rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and use visual tools, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can suit brief updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to keep continuity when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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