About Cathleen
Cathleen Brentnall is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and other everyday strains. She draws on ten years of practice to listen, clarify what matters to you, and help you take manageable steps forward. Her work can help when life feels stuck or when big changes and losses make things hard to cope with.
Cathleen uses practical, evidence-informed methods to guide conversations and set goals together.
Background and approach
She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centred listening so people can focus on values and small changes that matter. Cognitive behavioural techniques often help to spot unhelpful thinking and try new habits in daily life. She also brings approaches that support processing difficult memories, and she can introduce methods aimed at easing the hold of past trauma when that is appropriate.
Sessions are collaborative, with the counsellor and client deciding what feels useful and safe to try. Cathleen says faith can be included in sessions if a client wants that element. Cathleen trained in the United States and practised professionally for many years before working in the United Kingdom.
Her registration is with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That background informs a practical focus on helping people manage stress, parenting strains, work challenges and relationship concerns. People meet her for a mix of short-term coaching-style work and longer therapy depending on need.
She supports those dealing with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar features, attention difficulties like ADHD, and issues around eating, sleep and self-esteem. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online for convenience.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions by focusing on small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and uses practical exercises to try new ways of coping with mood, sleep or eating problems. Client-Centred Therapy provides a respectful, non-judgemental space where the counsellor follows the client’s pace and supports them to find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the client about goals, try methods that seem promising, and adjust the plan together. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the person seeking support.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions are useful when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching-style work or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people access consistent support from registered or accredited professionals without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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