About Catherine
Catherine Smith is a counsellor with 15 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and relationship concerns. Her approach treats the client as the expert of their own story and works to build confidence and motivation for change.
She uses a practical, supportive style in sessions. Catherine listens to what matters most and helps people find small, achievable steps forward.
Background and approach
She encourages reflection and action rather than long lectures, and aims to make sessions feel calm and focused. Her work includes support for grief and coping with loss, and she also addresses addictions, trauma and intimacy-related issues. People come to her with sleeping problems, social anxiety and phobia, or feelings of isolation and loneliness.
Catherine also helps those wanting to work on body image, self-love, forgiveness, guilt and shame. Over the years she has developed skills in hypnotherapy as one part of her offering. She uses this alongside conversational work to help with motivation, stress reduction and breaking unhelpful patterns.
Sessions are intended to be collaborative, with the client setting goals and pacing the work. Catherine aims to create a steady, encouraging space where practical tools are taught and practiced. She supports people who are ready to make changes and who want clear steps to improve their day-to-day coping and overall wellbeing.
How hypnotherapy and online sessions can help
Catherine uses hypnotherapy as one of her tools to tackle stress, anxiety and habits that get in the way of everyday life. Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to help access calmer states and support behaviour change. It is often used for motivation, sleep difficulties and reducing persistent worry.She pairs hypnotherapy with conversational counselling so you can both explore thoughts and practise practical strategies. Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, and together you will try methods that feel most helpful for your situation.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to suit different routines. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel and to maintain continuity when life shifts.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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