About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship concerns. She also helps with eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting pressures, work stress and managing life changes. Catherine notes experience with trauma and abuse, addiction and long-term health issues.
She works with neurodivergent and neurotypical people and accepts international clients. Catherine frames therapy as a collaborative process. She encourages people to recognise their own strengths and to take small practical steps towards change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding current worries, learning coping strategies, and building confidence to make decisions that fit life beyond therapy. Her approach draws on several well-known methods that help with thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Catherine uses techniques that address unhelpful thinking patterns, attachment concerns and emotional regulation.
She also offers person-centred support that keeps the client’s experience central to each session. Catherine holds NCPS as a credential and brings four years of professional experience to her practice. She offers a range of appointment times and will sometimes arrange sessions outside her usual hours by mutual agreement.
Online and remote session formats are available to suit different needs. Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Catherine aims to make the first steps straightforward and practical, so people can begin working on the things that matter to them.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by building flexible ways of responding to difficult feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. Sessions often involve practical exercises and strategies to reduce anxiety, improve sleep or change unhelpful routines.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how past experiences shape current reactions. This approach can help people understand relationship struggles and improve how they connect with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will discuss your goals, preferences and practical needs and suggest which methods to try first. The choice of approach can change as therapy progresses, and decisions are made jointly to fit your situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls let you use visual cues for more conversational work, while phone sessions can be lower bandwidth or easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or when writing helps you process thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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