About Catherine
Catherine Noy is an ACA counsellor with 17 years of experience. She works with people who are dealing with relationship strain, anxiety, stress and changes in life. Catherine aims to build a respectful and compassionate space where clients can start to sort things out and set realistic goals.
She adapts her conversations and the plan to fit each person's situation. Catherine draws on attachment-based ideas to look at close relationships and on cognitive approaches to help change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred and emotionally-focused methods to help people feel heard and to deepen emotional connection. Practical skills and clearer communication are often part of sessions. Catherine helps clients work on intimacy, parenting concerns, self-esteem, addictions, grief and managing mood issues such as depression or bipolar symptoms.
She also supports people facing career stress, caregiver fatigue and complex family dynamics. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Catherine encourages small, manageable steps and checks in on progress.
Her style is calm and steady, with a focus on problem solving and emotional clarity. She will listen first and then collaborate on a plan that makes sense for daily life. Catherine helps people find ways to cope, improve relationships and move toward more satisfying routines.
How Catherine's approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on the ways close relationships shape feelings and behaviour, helping people understand patterns that affect trust and intimacy. This can be useful when relationship strain or attachment issues are present.Client-centred therapy gives you space to feel heard and accepted while you talk through problems. It supports building confidence and clearer self-understanding at a pace that suits you.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviours that keep problems going. It is practical and often used for anxiety, low mood and stress-related concerns.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, day-to-day challenges and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she will suggest methods and adjust them as you progress, so care is collaborative and responsive.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and working with emotion, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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