About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and life changes. She also supports people dealing with addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting stresses, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns and ADHD.
Catherine draws on four years of professional experience and her NCPS credential to guide practical support. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
How Catherine works
She treats each person as the expert in their own life and focuses on building on existing strengths. Sessions aim to identify clear steps you can try between meetings so progress feels manageable. Catherine uses a mix of approaches to suit individual needs.
She offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centred methods and elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy where helpful. These are used to help with mood, coping skills, thinking patterns and relationship dynamics. People can expect a steady, practical way of working.
Conversations are used to spot patterns, try small changes and build coping strategies for difficult thoughts or feelings. Catherine emphasises collaboration - decisions about goals and methods are made together. Appointments are available online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, and international clients are accepted.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Catherine lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without being led by them and to act in line with what matters to them. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and day-to-day worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try to match methods to the client's goals, needs and preferences. Decisions about techniques and goals are made together so the plan feels realistic and useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or want ongoing brief support between sessions. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments while keeping a consistent therapeutic relationship with registered or accredited professionals.
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