About Kathy
Kathy Allatt is a counsellor who draws on both clinical and lived experience to support people through hard times. She acknowledges how daunting it can be to ask for help and aims to make the first steps easier. Kathy works from a warm, non-judgemental stance and focuses on helping people make sense of difficult feelings.
Kathy practised as a neonatal intensive care nurse and supported families caring for sick or preterm babies.
Background and approach
That clinical background shaped her understanding of how health and stress affect emotions. She has experience with grief after baby loss and with the intense emotions that follow neonatal care. She also worked in the NHS during the pandemic and is familiar with the pressures healthcare workers face.
That experience informs how she supports people coping with work-related stress and compassion fatigue. Kathy listens for how practical demands and emotional strain interact in daily life. Kathy uses a person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of the work.
She combines gentle listening with practical focus so people can clarify what matters to them and take small steps forward. Sessions aim to help clients understand their feelings and build tools to manage them. Kathy's areas of focus include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and depression.
She also supports people with relationship and family concerns, addiction, sleeping problems and a range of life transitions. Her goal is to offer steady support while clients explore coping and hope for the future.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Kathy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking small meaningful actions even when emotions are hard to sit with.She also works from a person-centred model that prioritises listening and empathy. This approach gives people space to be heard and to build trust before moving on to practical changes. Solution-focused techniques are used when clients want short, goal-oriented work to identify immediate next steps and coping strategies.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kathy will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree a way forward that feels right. The process is collaborative and can change as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video lets people read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or flexible scheduling between other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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