Catherine Hoversholm
Practical, compassionate counselling for life’s stresses
About Catherine
Catherine Hoversholm offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss or low self-esteem. She writes plainly and listens closely so clients can talk through what is worrying them. Her approach is steady and unhurried, aimed at helping people take small, manageable steps toward feeling better.
With 15 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Catherine uses a mix of counselling styles to suit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centred ways of working to make sessions collaborative and respectful of the client’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try out new behaviours. Mindfulness exercises are offered when they can help with stress, sleep or grounding during difficult moments.
Catherine also uses psychodynamic ideas to uncover recurring themes from past experience that affect current feelings. Solution-focused methods are used to set clear, short-term goals that make progress feel tangible. Sessions aim to be a judgement-free space where people can sort out grief, relationship strain, parenting pressures, career worries or the exhaustion of caregiving.
Catherine also supports those dealing with chronic pain, anger, abandonment concerns and the emotional impact of major life change. She holds the NCPS credential and works with each person to agree a plan and pace that suit them. The first session is used to clarify goals, explain options and begin practical steps toward coping differently.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
How Catherine blends approaches for online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. The counsellor reflects feelings and asks questions that help people clarify what matters to them, making sessions feel collaborative and respectful.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behaviour changes. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and stress because it breaks issues down into practical steps you can test between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Catherine will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear. This makes therapy a shared process where the client helps choose what feels most useful.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, family or health needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, journalling between sessions or times when typing feels easier than speaking.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
