About Catherine
Catherine Kearns uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people move forward. She works in the United Kingdom and draws on five years of clinical experience. Catherine speaks English and brings a respectful, non-judgemental approach to early sessions.
Her BACP credential is listed as a sign of professional registration in the UK. Catherine blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She may use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people settle on what matters most and take small steps towards those values.
How Catherine works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be used when thinking patterns and behaviours are getting in the way of daily life. Attachment-based and client-centred ideas guide how she listens and responds in session. People come to Catherine for many concerns, including anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those facing life changes, career strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness and concerns about self-esteem and body image. In practical terms Catherine offers a mix of session formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and short exercises or worksheets may be used between sessions to build awareness and momentum. Catherine aims to treat each person as an individual and to adapt her approach to what works best.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the service process.
Catherine lists 12 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-led steps despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It focuses on building a meaningful life through action rather than trying to eliminate every unpleasant emotion.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses short, structured exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop new coping skills for anxiety, depression and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Sessions begin with shared planning so techniques and pacing can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy with Catherine is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and messaging allow brief exchanges and flexible timing for people juggling work or caring commitments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on meaningful change.
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