About Kat
Kat Hurst is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety and trauma. She works from a gendered perspective with women and girls and people who identify as female from age 14 onwards. Her manner is collaborative and grounded in practical conversation to help clients feel heard and understood.
Kat uses a phased, integrative approach to recovery. She takes time to pace sessions so discussing painful memories feels manageable. She draws on a mix of therapeutic ideas including cognitive approaches, existential thinking, and humanistic practice, and adapts these to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in mental health hospitals where she supported adolescents and adults with eating disorders. That experience informs how she recognises the physical and emotional risks around disordered eating and recommends clients remain under GP or medical care when needed. Kat helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, panic, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and mood difficulties.
She also works with concerns around body image, attachment and relationship issues, guilt, shame and impulsivity. Her practice is aimed at building insight, self-awareness and gradual change. Sessions are collaborative and non-judgemental.
Kat emphasises empowerment and helps clients identify practical steps forward. Conversations cover feelings, thoughts and coping strategies tailored to what each person brings to therapy.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy
Kat works integratively and draws on cognitive approaches that look at how thoughts and behaviours affect feelings. These techniques help with anxiety, panic and unhelpful thought patterns by teaching practical ways to respond to worries and reduce avoidance.She also draws on humanistic and existential ideas that focus on meaning, values and personal choice. This helps when people are struggling with low self-esteem, life direction or the emotional impact of trauma by encouraging self-awareness and empowerment.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, personal preferences and what feels manageable. Together they try different ways of working and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and seeing non-verbal cues, phone calls can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can help keep in touch between sessions or suit people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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