About Katherine
Katherine Purdy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who draws on her past career in emergency services to offer steady support. She welcomes people feeling anxious, grieving, lonely or overwhelmed. Katherine aims to create a calm space where clients can name what feels hard and start to make sense of it.
She previously worked as a paramedic for over 10 years before retraining in counselling. That background shaped her approach to crisis and distress, and she continues to combine practical care with therapeutic work.
Background and approach
Katherine holds BACP, which is listed as her professional credential. Katherine listens closely and helps people tell their story in their own words. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationships and patterns that repeat.
Narrative therapy helps people reframe difficult events and find new meanings. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce intense worry and to bring attention back to the present. Psychodynamic thinking is used when it helps to understand old patterns that affect current life.
Sessions are conversational and paced to each person’s needs. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, addictions and relationship problems. Katherine also supports people dealing with obsessive or compulsive thoughts, panic attacks, and difficulties around abandonment or codependency.
Her style is warm, patient and practical.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when people find themselves repeating old dynamics or struggling with trust or closeness. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor - it uses listening, acceptance and empathy so people can talk through what matters most to them. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce intense worry and to calm the body during panic or stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Katherine will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that suit each person. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when that matters, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or quieter communication. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions around work or family commitments and to continue therapy when travel or relocation would otherwise interrupt it.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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