About Katherine
Katherine Smalldon helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship and intimacy problems, and difficulty coping with life changes. She supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Katherine is a BACP counsellor with nine years of practice in the United Kingdom.
She offers a calm pace and listens first. Sessions begin by talking about what the person wants from therapy and what worries them.
How Katherine works
Katherine encourages people to set goals, ask questions, and give feedback so the work stays relevant and useful. Her approach combines attachment-based work with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. She also draws on existential and narrative ideas to help people make sense of difficult experiences and choices.
This mix is aimed at practical change alongside deeper understanding. Katherine has supported people through parenting stresses, family and blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness and cancer, and the effects of abandonment or disrupted attachment. She also works with people managing dissociation, communication and control issues, and a range of personality-related concerns.
Sessions can help when someone feels stuck, when patterns keep repeating, or when a life event causes upheaval. Katherine uses straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and reflective listening to help people notice options and try different ways of coping. She aims to make therapy understandable and manageable for people new to counselling.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. Appointments are arranged to fit each person’s circumstances and preferences.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they relate to others and to themselves, and it can be useful for relationship, abandonment, and attachment concerns.Client-centred work gives people space to tell their story while the counsellor reflects and follows what matters to them. This approach suits those who want a steady, empathic listener and time to find their own solutions.
Cognitive behavioural work looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, sleep and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Katherine will work collaboratively to identify which ways of working best match a person’s needs, goals and preferences. She will check in and adjust the approach as the work progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are good for a familiar face and a full conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or suit those who prefer not to use video. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, shorter sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. Registered and accredited professionals can use these options to make therapy more accessible and to help people keep continuity of care.
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