About Katherine
Katherine Orr offers help for a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy problems, addiction, grief, parenting strain and self-esteem. She works with people who are dealing with life changes, career questions, ADHD, compassion fatigue and issues around body image and identity.
Katherine writes plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. She uses a collaborative style where the person sets goals and the counsellor helps explore thoughts, feelings and behaviours without simply giving advice.
How Katherine works
Katherine draws on client-centred ideas to keep the focus on the person’s experience, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and psychodynamic ideas to look at past experiences that shape current reactions. Sessions are conversational and practical, with space to reflect and try small changes.
Katherine has four years of experience and holds a BACP credential, which is shown here exactly as provided. She offers online sessions by video, phone, live chat and text messaging, and works with people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients in English.
People often come for help with attachment concerns, communication and blended family strains, eating and food-related difficulties, domestic violence impacts, substance use, guilt and isolation. Katherine aims to tailor the way of working to each person’s needs while keeping things straightforward and supportive. To get started a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on availability.
Katherine describes her manner as professional with a personal touch and focuses on steady practical progress.
Katherine lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Katherine works with
The areas below are the ones Katherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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 Katherine's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely to the person's experience and following their pace. It helps people who need a supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression and stress when someone wants tools to try between sessions.
Psychodynamic ideas look at how past experiences shape present behaviour and emotional reactions. This approach can shed light on repeated relationship patterns or deep-rooted feelings that keep coming up.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine treats choosing methods as a joint process and will discuss options based on a person’s goals, needs and preferences. Together they decide which ideas to keep using and when to try different techniques.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, live chat can suit short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats help fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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A practical next step
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