About Catherine
Catherine Teale (Richards) is a warm, approachable counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and related concerns. She aims to create a calm space where clients can be heard and understood. Her style is kind and non-judgemental, with a gentle tone that many people find easier to talk to when they feel worried or overwhelmed.
Catherine uses an integrative approach, drawing on different methods to match each person’s needs. She offers practical tools and simple ways to notice thoughts, feelings and patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to suit the person, with time to reflect on both past experiences and present worries. With a Bachelor of Science in Therapeutic Counselling and four years of practice, she has supported people with anxiety, depression, eating concerns, trauma and relationship difficulties. She also works with issues such as grief, self-esteem, sleeping problems and addiction.
Her background includes helping people to build confidence and to manage life changes. Catherine is registered with the BACP, which is listed as her credential. She works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Her approach is collaborative and centred on helping each person find what feels most useful for them. People meet her to talk through specific problems or to explore longer-term change. She tailors tools and conversations to each person’s situation, aiming to help them feel steadier and more able to cope day to day.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. It often supports anxiety, avoidance and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters rather than on trying to control every feeling.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical steps to change patterns that keep problems going. It can be helpful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and eating-related concerns.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and how new ways of relating can be tried out in the present. This approach can help with intimacy issues, attachment concerns and relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they will review what helps and adjust the approach as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can suit quieter or low-bandwidth moments, live chat offers shorter check-ins and text messaging lets someone write when that is easier. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while keeping therapy consistent over time.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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