About Kate
Kate Wilson meets people where they are and helps them find steadier ground. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low mood, grief and life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making small, useful changes that fit into busy lives.
With six years of practice, she draws on several approaches to shape the work. Sessions often explore how past experiences affect current patterns, particularly around attachment and abandonment.
How Kate works
Practical skills are a frequent focus - calming techniques, coping plans and routines to help with sleep, anger or mood swings. She uses client-centred conversation alongside cognitive behavioural tools and elements from dialectical behaviour therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas may appear when the goal is to accept difficult feelings while moving towards valued life aims.
The therapist also uses attachment-based thinking when relationships and early patterns are at play. Kate adapts sessions to each person rather than offering one fixed programme. That means working together to build strategies you can use day to day, from managing panic to handling family conflict or work stress.
Creative ways of working with emotions are used when helpful. Respect, sensitivity and compassion guide the process. Kate explains things plainly and helps people set realistic steps.
She aims to empower people to make steady progress and cope better with the pressures they face.
Kate lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Kate works with
The areas below are the ones Kate 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Kate uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and learn different ways of responding. CBT focuses on practical steps and exercises that can reduce anxiety, improve mood and change patterns that cause trouble.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current reactions. This approach helps when difficulties with trust, abandonment or closeness make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is something to work out together. The therapist discusses your goals and preferences and recommends methods that fit your situation. Sessions are collaborative so plans can change as needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you connect. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel and fuller interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter notes, ongoing support between sessions or when typing feels more comfortable.
These options help fit therapy around work, family life and shifts in routine while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress with the approaches described above.
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