About Katherine
Katherine Smalldon is a counsellor who helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns. She works with people facing depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and those coping with life changes or addiction. Katherine is BACP, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She has nine years of counselling experience and welcomes enquiries from international clients. Katherine takes a gentle, steady approach in sessions.
Background and approach
She starts by asking about hopes, fears and expectations so people can set the pace. Early appointments focus on what someone wants from therapy and what feels helpful or unhelpful for them. Feedback and questions are encouraged as work continues.
Sessions are conversational and aimed at making sense of patterns. Katherine helps people look at past experiences, current relationships and everyday behaviour. She uses practical ways to try out different responses and to build new coping skills.
Therapy can also include looking at meaning and personal stories. Katherine uses ideas from attachment and narrative approaches to understand how early relationships shape feelings now. Where thinking patterns are part of the problem, she uses cognitive behavioural ideas to test and shift those patterns.
People may come for help with anger, self-esteem, parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, or neurodiversity-related concerns such as autism and ADHD. Katherine also works with issues like chronic illness, cancer impact, and adoption or foster care histories. To get started, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book sessions online.
Appointments are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, so sessions can fit into busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and ways of relating. Online sessions give time to look at connection styles, safety in relationships, and patterns that repeat, which can help with relationship and intimacy concerns.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s perspective first and follows their pace. In online sessions this often feels like an open, listening space where the counsellor reflects what is said and helps clarify needs and choices.
Cognitive behavioural ideas look at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offer practical experiments to try between sessions. Over video or messaging these exercises can be set and reviewed, helping with anxiety, sleep issues and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and choose methods together with the client based on needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative decision and can change as work progresses.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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