About Natalie
Natalie Mccarthy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings four years of clinical experience to her work. Natalie aims to help people understand themselves better and find ways to manage difficult feelings.
She writes in simple terms and meets people where they are. Natalie uses an integrative approach, drawing on several therapy styles to match what each person needs. Sessions focus on acceptance, clear listening and practical steps people can try between meetings.
How Natalie works
She keeps conversations straightforward and will gently challenge patterns that get in the way of change. People come for many reasons, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship problems. Natalie also supports those facing grief, addiction, identity questions, chronic illness and parenting strains.
She pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current difficulties. In practice she combines client-centred work with cognitive tools and skills from dialectical and attachment-based approaches. That mix helps people build new coping habits, manage strong emotions and improve communication.
Natalie encourages self-awareness and small, achievable changes. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, so people can choose what suits them. Natalie aims to create a calm, respectful space where each person’s experience is taken seriously.
Her style is down-to-earth, patient and practical, with an eye for what will help day-to-day life.
Natalie lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Natalie works with
The areas below are the ones Natalie 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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 Natalie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions; online sessions can help people notice these patterns and try new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and empathy, giving people space to talk and be heard so they can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can be practised between sessions and reviewed during meetings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Natalie will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as the work progresses. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to use and when to adjust the plan.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging makes scheduling more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family and other commitments.
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A practical next step
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