About Catherine
Catherine Kearns is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and phobias. She works in a straightforward way and focuses on helping people take small steps that can make a noticeable difference. Catherine holds BACP and has five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
She offers one-to-one sessions that focus on the issues you bring, such as anxiety, depression, addictions, or relationship and intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Catherine also supports people dealing with life changes, work stress, and concerns around self-esteem and identity. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with space to talk things through and plan next steps. Her practice draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships affect current feelings and reactions. She combines these approaches with a client-centred stance, keeping the sessions respectful and non-judgemental. Catherine asks new clients to meet for a live session so she can understand the issue and agree short-term goals.
She may suggest worksheets or practical exercises between sessions to build awareness and skills. The emphasis is on small, achievable changes that fit into everyday life. She accepts people from different cultural backgrounds and works with clients internationally in English.
Catherine aims to give each person the time and respect they need to move forward at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online working
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is often used for anxiety, phobias and mood concerns because it teaches skills you can use between sessions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult feelings without being ruled by them. It supports finding personal values and taking small committed actions that move life in a meaningful direction.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will explore your goals and preferences with you and choose methods that suit your situation. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as you learn what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well when visual contact helps, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping focus on the practical steps you want to take.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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