About Catherine
Catherine Hoversholm helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and low self-esteem. She is a counsellor with NCPS and brings 15 years of experience supporting people through depression, life changes and parenting strains. Catherine keeps language simple and aims to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can say what is on their mind. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person and finding practical ways forward.
How Catherine works
Catherine encourages small steps that add up to real change. Her work draws on client-centred ideas that place the person’s experience at the heart of the conversation. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful patterns and try new ways of thinking and acting.
Mindfulness tools are offered to help with sleep, anxiety and stress management. Catherine has worked across a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, parenting pressures, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related struggles. She also supports people dealing with grief, chronic illness, bereavement and career uncertainty.
Her approach is adaptable to what each person needs in the moment. People who meet her find practical, down-to-earth support rather than jargon. Catherine aims to build a collaborative plan and review progress together.
Taking part in therapy is framed as team work towards clearer thinking and better coping.
Catherine lists 5 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online counselling
Client-centred work focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around what matters most to them, useful for stress, grief and parenting worries.Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) involves spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviours. It is practical and goal-orientated, often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and improve calm during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is a process. Catherine works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, preferences and day-to-day life. She will review what helps and adjust techniques as the work progresses so sessions remain useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and share materials, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, and live chat or text sessions make it easy to check in between longer meetings. These options help people keep therapy going around family life, work and other commitments.
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A practical next step
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