About Catherine
Catherine Cross offers calm, practical counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or major life changes. She welcomes conversations about loss, depression, parenting pressures and relationship worries. Catherine writes in simple terms and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone unsure about therapy.
She trained and practises with a person-centred focus, which means she puts the client's experience at the heart of sessions. She also uses elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, existential thinking and psychodynamic ideas when these fit a person's needs.
How Catherine works
Sessions are shaped around what a person wants to address, whether that is coping strategies or exploring deeper patterns. Catherine has four years' experience working across the NHS, a children's centre and in independent practice in the United Kingdom. She also provides support through a charity for people working in the construction industry.
Her background includes work with parents of children who have special educational needs and an interest in neurodiversity and how it affects mental health. People can expect a warm and down-to-earth approach in sessions. Catherine aims to help clients feel calmer and make clearer decisions without shame or guilt.
The focus may be short-term coping skills or longer conversations about identity and purpose. She is an accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online using a mix of formats to suit different needs.
Catherine lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Catherine's Approaches Work Online
Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change them into more useful ways of thinking. It often involves practical exercises and steps a person can try between sessions to manage anxiety or low mood.Client-centred therapy gives attention to a person's own experience and choices. The counsellor listens with empathy and helps the person make sense of feelings, build self-worth and decide on the next steps to take.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will check what matters to the person and try different ways of working until something fits. This is a collaborative process that adapts as needs and goals change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls provide a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins or for those who think better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or everyday routines.
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