About Katharine
Katharine (Kate) James is a psychotherapist with 17 years of experience who uses a client-centred approach to help people through stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques, emotionally-focused work and hypnotherapy to offer practical ways to feel calmer and more confident. Kate works in English and practices from the United Kingdom under the NCPS credential.
Her sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person. She helps people identify what holds them back and build small, workable steps to change.
How Katharine works
Conversations focus on real-life coping skills as well as emotional insight. Practical tools and mindful techniques are woven into the work. Kate supports people facing grief, low self-esteem, career strain and significant life changes.
She also addresses intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting concerns and trauma and abuse. Additional focuses include communication problems, codependency, divorce and end-of-life matters. Over 17 years she has developed a calm, steady style that emphasises listening and clear next steps.
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and increase emotional resilience. Therapy can be short-term problem solving or a longer, exploratory process depending on what the person wants. Online formats include video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging, and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to therapist availability.
Katharine lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Katharine works with
The areas below are the ones Katharine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online working
Kate commonly combines client-centred therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy to create a practical and compassionate way of working. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the person find their own solutions, which suits people who need space to process and be heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers clear techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses emotionally-focused therapy for people who want to repair connection and address relationship distress. That approach concentrates on recognising emotional patterns and improving communication to help people feel more supported in their close relationships. Together these methods target both immediate coping skills and deeper emotional shifts, and the therapist will work with each person to decide the best mix based on their goals and preferences.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make attending easier and more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations when seeing facial expressions matters, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging suits brief updates or people who prefer written communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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