About Catherine
Catherine Teale (Richards) helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and relationship concerns. She also supports those dealing with grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD and coping with life changes. Catherine practices in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Catherine aims to create a calm and supportive space where people can feel heard. She uses a gentle, warm approach and encourages curiosity about the past and present.
How Catherine works
Conversations are paced to suit each person so they can reflect without pressure. She describes her work as integrative, drawing on several methods to match individual needs. That means sessions can include talking, practical strategies and exercises tailored to the concern at hand.
The focus is on building confidence and finding manageable steps forward. Catherine has four years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in therapeutic counselling and several years of practice in clinical settings.
Sessions can address a wide range of related issues such as attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, blended family challenges, dissociation, commitment and communication problems. She aims to help people find clearer perspectives and workable ways to cope day to day.
Catherine lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace 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 these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and problems where avoidance has become a pattern. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current connection and trust. This can help with intimacy, attachment issues and difficulties after loss.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods might help most. That choice is made together and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel more like face-to-face work, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options aim to make it easier to attend sessions, fit therapy into a busy life and use the format that feels most comfortable.
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