About Katja
Katja Brodt de Sousa is a counsellor with 18 years' experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress or big life changes. She aims to help clients spot the thoughts and behaviours that get in the way of better relationships and day-to-day wellbeing. Katja works in English and German and practises from the United Kingdom.
She offers calm, straightforward sessions that focus on what is useful now. Conversations move from understanding what keeps someone stuck to trying small, practical changes.
Background and approach
That might mean looking at thoughts and habits, or exploring how past attachment patterns affect present relationships. Katja draws on a mix of approaches that suit each person. She uses client-centred ways of listening, cognitive behavioural ideas to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-based perspectives to look at how relationships shape self worth.
Sessions are shaped around a client's goals and pace. Her background includes many years working with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, infidelity, divorce and separation. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction and burnout related to caregiving or compassion fatigue.
This experience informs a practical, empathic style in session. People meet Katja to work on self-esteem, intimacy issues, sleeping problems, anger, career stress and ADHD-related challenges. The focus can also include family of origin issues, abandonment and control or dependency patterns.
She helps clients move from being stuck to trying clearer, kinder ways of relating and coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Katja uses client-centred work that focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and encourages self-directed change by following what matters most to the client.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers concrete techniques to test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviours, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katja will discuss your needs and goals and try methods that match your situation, adapting as you go. The aim is to work together to discover what helps you make practical shifts.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let you see facial cues and body language, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be simpler to join. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, travel and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, German
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