About Catherine
Catherine Norris is a counsellor with 16 years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, loss and low mood. She offers calm, steady support and practical steps for people trying to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Catherine works with a wide range of concerns including relationships, addiction, parenting challenges and the ups and downs of major life change.
She has worked in the NHS, with two national charities, and in independent practice from her home in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Background and approach
Her membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is shown as BACP. Catherine draws on that varied background to shape sessions around each person's needs. Catherine uses a pluralistic way of working, choosing methods to suit the individual rather than following a single model.
Sessions focus on what matters to the person and on small, practical steps that build coping skills and clarity. Conversations may also look at past experiences and how these shape current patterns. Her approach is collaborative and values-led.
She helps people identify priorities, recognise unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. This can include work on attachment, communication, boundaries, and self‑esteem. Catherine also supports people with more complex presentations such as trauma, chronic illness, addiction and neurodiversity-related concerns.
She aims to create a steady, non-judgemental space where people can make sense of their experience and move towards changes that feel meaningful.
How Catherine uses talking therapies online
Catherine commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment‑Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their personal values. Attachment‑Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current ways of relating; it can help with communication and feeling safer with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine aims to agree a way of working that fits a person's goals, history and preferences. She will suggest methods, check what feels helpful, and adapt as the therapy progresses so people stay involved in the choices about their care.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text‑based messaging suit brief check‑ins, people who prefer writing, or those who want a lower‑intensity option. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on steady, consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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