About Katie
Katie Shaw offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship strain and grief. She is a BACP counsellor with 22 years' experience and speaks English. Katie aims to make the first steps into therapy as simple as possible for a worried parent reading on a phone.
Katie works in a practical, person-focused way. Sessions put the client at the centre and avoid jargon. She listens, asks clear questions and helps people spot small changes that can lift day-to-day coping.
How Katie works
The goal is more confidence, clearer choices and fewer repeated patterns. Her background includes many years working in different settings, including schools where she counsels students and staff. That experience informs how she supports people dealing with communication problems, caregiver stress, or the complex feelings that come with illness and ageing.
Common areas she helps with include self-esteem, depression, attachment issues, body image and isolation. Katie also supports people dealing with divorce and separation, fertility concerns, addiction, guilt and forgiveness. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs.
Katie adapts the way she works so people can try small steps between appointments. She encourages practical experiments, honest conversation and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Katie works with
The areas below are the ones Katie 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Person-centred work focuses on listening and understanding the person in front of the counsellor. It helps people who need time and empathy to make sense of their feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive approaches involve noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying practical ways to change them. These techniques can be useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because they offer clear steps people can practise between sessions.
Finding the right way of working is a collaborative process. Katie will discuss different methods and help decide what fits each person's goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as issues evolve and new priorities appear.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face when that matters, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be simpler on the go, and live chat or text messages suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for appointments, helping therapy to continue around school runs, work and other commitments.
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A practical next step
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