About Kate
Kate Wilson is a psychotherapist and counsellor who works with people struggling with stress, anxiety and grief. She also supports those facing low self-esteem, depression and big life changes. Kate combines talking therapies with hypnotherapy when that suits a person's needs.
Kate trained in psychology, earning a BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, LSE. Before training as a psychotherapist she worked as a research psychologist at LSE, and she now also offers clinical supervision to other therapists.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on several approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy, along with mindfulness practices and hypnotherapy. She blends techniques to match what a person needs in the moment rather than using a single fixed method.
Kate has particular experience supporting people with bereavement and loss, and she has worked with Cruse as a support worker and supervisor. She is also affiliated with Anxiety UK, and regularly sees people coping with anxiety and related concerns. Sessions are delivered with a warm and open style.
Conversations are direct and down to earth, aimed at helping people talk things through, set realistic goals and find ways to manage difficult feelings. Kate works from the United Kingdom and offers online options as well as other session formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it supports living in line with personal values; it can help with anxiety and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to reduce distress, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Client-Centred Therapy offers a supportive, non-directive space where the counsellor follows the person's lead and helps them find their own answers.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Together they adapt techniques so sessions feel useful and manageable rather than prescriptive.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text-based messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and travel, while still working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists to address anxiety and related concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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