Catherine Dicken
Calm, practical counselling for real life challenges
About Catherine
Catherine Dicken helps people who are feeling stuck, anxious or overwhelmed find steadier ground. She speaks plainly and offers a calm space for clients to talk through difficult feelings. Catherine aims to help people build confidence and take practical steps toward change.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - which focuses on values and actions - and Attachment-Based Therapy - which looks at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses Client-Centred and Mindfulness methods to support people in noticing thoughts and feelings without harsh self-judgement. In sessions she listens for what matters most to each person and helps turn difficult experiences into manageable steps. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs rather than a fixed programme.
Practical exercises, reflection and simple mindfulness practices may be used between sessions. Catherine has four years of professional counselling experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration reflects ongoing professional practice and adherence to a recognised set of standards.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, codependency and coping with life changes. Sessions are offered in English and can suit people seeking help for everyday pressures through to more complex emotional struggles.
The focus is on practical support and steady progress over time.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions towards those values. Online ACT work often uses simple exercises and values-based goals to manage anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and shift repeating behaviours; this can be explored through talk work and reflective exercises during sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on warm, non-judgemental listening that lets people set the pace and topics of therapy, which suits online formats where people may feel more comfortable beginning at their own speed.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will work collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on your goals, needs and preferences. Together you can try different techniques and agree what helps most, with adjustments made as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises while phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed. Live chat and messaging offer short, more frequent check-ins for people who prefer brief written contact. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
