About Katherine
Katherine Purdy is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of practice. She draws on previous experience as a paramedic and an ongoing background in NHS work to understand how crises and everyday pressures affect people. Katherine offers a calm, empathetic presence and time to talk through what is troubling someone.
Katherine aims to listen carefully and help people make sense of difficult feelings. She focuses on practical conversations about stress, anxiety, grief and depression, and on issues such as relationships, intimacy, self-esteem and parenting.
How Katherine works
Sessions are straightforward and paced to each person's needs. Her work also covers trauma and abuse, addictions, eating concerns, obsessive or compulsive thoughts, panic and post-traumatic stress. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment, codependency, guilt and shame, and problems with control or communication.
Katherine uses approaches that help people reflect on past experiences and current patterns. She brings client-centred listening alongside techniques from mindfulness, narrative and psychodynamic ideas to help people notice thoughts, feelings and storylines that hold them back. People can expect a warm, non-judgemental space to talk and try out new ways of coping.
Katherine emphasises collaboration and small, achievable steps when working towards calmer, more hopeful days.
Katherine lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| 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 counselling
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape present feelings and expectations. In online sessions this helps people notice patterns in close relationships and practise new responses to connection and trust issues.Client-centred therapy focuses on warm listening and meeting someone where they are. It supports people who are anxious, grieving or struggling with self-esteem by offering acceptance and encouragement while they talk things through.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and calm the body. It can be useful for panic, stress, obsessions and managing intense emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Katherine will discuss options and help decide what fits each person’s needs, goals and preferences. That choice is a collaborative one and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can suit short check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and let people pick what helps them engage most effectively.
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