Catherine Baines
Compassionate counsellor for life’s difficult changes
About Catherine
Catherine Baines is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She focuses on helping people who are facing relationship strain, grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression and motivation difficulties. Catherine aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and less daunting.
Her style is straightforward and welcoming. She creates a space where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to the individual, with time to reflect and to plan small changes that build over time. Catherine supports people dealing with anxiety, stress, addictions, and trauma-related concerns. She also helps with intimacy issues, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting pressures, and workplace or career stress.
Issues such as adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and family of origin problems are within her remit. She brings attention to chronic health and caregiving challenges, end-of-life concerns, and complex feelings like guilt, shame, abandonment and emptiness. Catherine offers coaching-style conversations for motivation and practical next steps when appropriate.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People choose therapy by a short matching questionnaire and can schedule sessions according to availability.
What Catherine works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support practical change. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing different ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings; this can be useful for anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Another approach emphasises creating clearer emotional awareness and getting to know repeated relationship and attachment patterns, which helps with grief, intimacy issues and family of origin concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss options with each person, try things out, and adapt methods to match the individual's needs, goals and preferences rather than imposing a single model.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer typing or need more frequent brief contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other life demands while maintaining continuity of support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
