About Cathy
Cathy Hadley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of experience. She is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). Cathy welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and aims to make the first step into therapy as straightforward as possible.
She supports people facing stress, anxiety and low mood. Cathy also helps with relationship tensions, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, grief and issues around eating and sleeping.
How Cathy works
Her practice includes work with neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger syndrome and with people navigating adoption, foster care or attachment difficulties. Cathy adapts her approach to the person in front of her. She uses client-centred listening to understand what matters and combines this with practical strategies from cognitive behavioural therapy when people need tools to manage thoughts and feelings.
Emotion-focused elements help when the priority is reconnecting with feelings that have been hard to name. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person. Cathy pays attention to safety and respect, and she aims to make sessions feel direct but caring.
She is willing to offer appointments at times that fit a client’s schedule. People can work with her on challenges such as parenting strain, career stress, coping with life changes, anger, codependency and chronic illness. She also supports LGBT concerns and work around intimacy and communication.
Cathy accepts people from outside the UK and carries out sessions in English. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, and arrangements are made via an online matching process.
Cathy lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Cathy works with
The areas below are the ones Cathy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Cathy uses different approaches online
Cathy draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how close relationships shape feelings and behaviour. That work can be useful for people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues or ongoing relationship patterns.She also uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. This helps people feel heard and decide what issues to prioritise in the work together.
In addition, Cathy employs cognitive behavioural techniques to offer clear tools for managing anxious thoughts, low mood and unhelpful behaviour. These strategies are practical and can be used between sessions to help with day-to-day coping.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Cathy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and make decisions together about which methods to use. The plan can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility and choice. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited; live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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