About Cathleen
Cathleen Brentnall is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress and relationship strain. She offers straightforward support and practical steps to help clients cope with day-to-day pressures and big life changes. Her approach is warm and respectful and she aims to listen first and work at the client’s pace.
Cathleen uses familiar talking therapies and evidence-informed techniques to help people manage symptoms and reach clearer decisions. She encourages clients to notice what matters to them, try small changes, and build on strengths that already exist.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and learning style. She has worked in mental health for around ten years and holds BACP accreditation, which she lists as her professional credential. Cathleen trained in the United States and now practises in the United Kingdom.
That background informs how she blends different methods when helping someone navigate grief, trauma, parenting stress or workplace concerns. Typical topics she supports include anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship issues. She also works with sleep and eating difficulties, neurodiversity concerns such as autism and adult ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic health issues and emotional reactions to ageing or bereavement.
Cathleen is willing to include faith or prayer in sessions when a client prefers that frame. Her style is collaborative and practical. Clients can expect clear discussion, coping strategies and time to reflect on values and goals.
The work aims to reduce overwhelm and make manageable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
How Cathleen’s approaches work online
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is practical and suits people who want clear tools to manage symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, abbreviated ACT, encourages people to notice their values and to take action that matters to them while learning to live with difficult thoughts or feelings. This approach helps when worries or uncertainty get in the way of everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cathleen will discuss options and try methods that fit a client’s goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as they learn together. The process is collaborative and paced to what the person needs.
Online sessions give flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections or working between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, while keeping continuity of care even when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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