About Catherine
Catherine Kearns is a counsellor who focuses on helping people with stress and anxiety. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help clients take steps forward. Catherine offers a calm presence and a straightforward way of working for those feeling overwhelmed.
She draws on a blend of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centred work. Sessions aim to identify what matters to each person, spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and build small, manageable actions.
Background and approach
Worksheets and goal-setting are commonly used to track progress. Catherine has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That background informs how she shapes sessions and tailors interventions to individual needs.
She has supported people with a wide range of concerns such as addictions, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, and trauma. She also works with people facing body image, chronic health, caregiver stress, and career-related problems. Catherine encourages an open, non-judgemental atmosphere where clients can speak freely.
Early sessions focus on understanding the problem, setting achievable goals, and agreeing on simple tasks to try between meetings. Her practice offers a mix of live sessions and messaging options to suit different routines and needs.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about clarifying what matters and taking small steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress. Client-centred therapy gives space for the client to lead the conversation while the counsellor offers empathy and reflection to help understanding grow.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Catherine will discuss your goals and preferences in early sessions and together you will try methods that fit your needs. She adapts tools and exercises so they work through online formats, and will check in about what helps or what needs changing over time.
Online work is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions suit quieter connections or shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging can help people who prefer writing, need brief support between sessions, or want more flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still following a clear plan for change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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