About Katharine
Katharine (Kate) James is a psychotherapist who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. She brings 17 years of experience and works in a warm, client-centred way that aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Kate uses talking therapy alongside hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques to help people feel calmer and more confident.
Kate keeps sessions collaborative and tailored to each person. She listens first, then helps identify patterns that keep problems cycling.
Background and approach
Together clients build simple strategies to cope with overwhelming feelings and to make small, steady changes in day-to-day life. Her work covers common concerns such as anxiety, low mood, grief and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with intimacy problems, family issues, trauma and abuse, eating or sleeping difficulties, and career-related stress.
Kate offers a space for people to reflect on loss, blame, guilt and shame and to work toward greater emotional balance. In sessions she blends client-centred listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness. Hypnotherapy may be used where it could help with calm, confidence or habits.
Imago and emotionally-focused ideas are drawn on for relationship and communication work. Sessions are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Kate works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
Her registration is NCPS, and she has practised for 17 years.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client‑centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say and helps them find their own solutions. This approach helps with anxiety, feeling stuck and building self‑acceptance.Cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to reduce unhelpful thinking and improve coping with stress, sleep problems and low mood.
Emotionally‑focused Therapy or EFT is useful for improving connection and communication in relationships. It helps people notice and change patterns that lead to distance or repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the person's goals and preferences. Sessions are collaborative, and plans can be adjusted as things progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility and choice. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation similar to an in-person session. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quicker check‑in is needed. Live chat and text‑based messaging can suit people who prefer to write or want short, frequent support between longer sessions. These options help make therapy fit around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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