About Cathy
Cathy Hadley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with over 11 years of practice. She is a BACP member - that means she follows the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists' standards. Cathy focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, low mood and relationship difficulties.
She works in a straightforward, respectful way. Sessions are intended as a calm space to talk about what is worrying you.
Background and approach
Cathy listens closely and helps clients find practical steps to feel better day to day. Cathy uses approaches such as client-centred work and attachment-informed ideas to explore how relationships shape feelings. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking and emotional patterns.
The aim is to build clearer coping strategies and stronger emotional understanding. People come to Cathy for a wide range of concerns including trauma, self-esteem, grief, eating and sleep problems, parenting strains, ADHD, and behavioural or communication difficulties. She also supports issues linked to adoption, abandonment and long-term illness.
Sessions can be arranged by online video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs. To start, clients use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule a suitable time according to the therapist's availability.
How Cathy’s approaches translate to online therapy
Cathy uses client-centred ideas to start sessions by listening closely and following what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes each session around their immediate concerns.She also works with attachment-based concepts to look at how early and recent relationships affect mood and behaviour. These discussions can help when addressing anxiety, relationship patterns or feelings around abandonment and care.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cathy will discuss different ways of working and decide together with the client what fits best. That choice is based on the person’s goals, comfort and practical needs rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat and text messaging to give flexible options. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone calls can be a good shorter check-in, and messaging allows brief updates or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to work around busy schedules and differing day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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