About Cathy
Cathy Crawford is a counsellor with nine years of professional experience. She supports people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Cathy also helps people cope after trauma, abuse and bereavement, and she works with relationship concerns including infidelity and communication problems.
Cathy adapts sessions to each person’s situation. She aims to be respectful, sensitive and compassionate in conversations. Cathy focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions and on clearer ways to communicate with partners or family.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people managing grief and loss. She has practical experience helping clients with parenting stress and conflicts that stem from family of origin issues. She also addresses attachment concerns, codependency and feelings of isolation.
Sessions explore the problem you bring, and then build a plan that feels manageable. Cathy helps people spot unhelpful patterns, practise new ways of interacting, and rebuild a sense of control. She explains ideas plainly and checks in about progress each step of the way.
People start by describing what matters most to them. Cathy then tailors the dialogue and the plan to those needs. She encourages small, steady changes and recognises that beginning therapy is a difficult step.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques guide Cathy’s work. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This involves learning breathing and grounding tools, spotting unhelpful thoughts, and rehearsing alternative responses that lower day-to-day tension.Another approach emphasises improving communication and attachment patterns in relationships. Sessions look at how people relate, what triggers conflict, and then practise clearer ways to ask for needs or set boundaries. This is useful for issues such as infidelity, control problems and family of origin patterns.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Cathy discusses your goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try together. She checks progress and adjusts the plan as you go, so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls let you work more closely on emotional material, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for short check-ins or to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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