Catherine Garbutt
Compassionate counsellor for life challenges
About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and major life changes. She supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with sleep, eating or self-esteem. Catherine also works with issues such as parenting strain, career questions, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She is based in the United Kingdom and has four years of professional experience. Her credential is NCPS, which is shown as NCPS.
Background and approach
Catherine takes a collaborative approach. She believes people know their own story and brings practical tools alongside listening. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the person, building coping skills, and finding small steps that make daily life easier.
She describes counselling as a joint effort where honesty and steady work matter more than quick fixes. Her methods draw on a mix of approaches to suit different needs. Techniques aim to help manage overwhelming thoughts, strengthen relationships, and steady moods.
Clients can expect conversations that link thoughts, behaviours and feelings to real-life choices. The emphasis is on clarity and practical strategies rather than jargon. Catherine is comfortable with neurodivergent and neurotypical people and mentions experience supporting those affected by medical issues and caregiver stress.
She also notes work with intimacy, attachment and body image concerns. Over time she helps people build confidence and clearer decision-making. Getting started is straightforward.
Catherine invites people to take the first step when they feel ready and to arrange times that fit around other commitments. She aims to help clients leave therapy feeling more settled and able to manage future challenges.
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Sessions & fees
How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying different behaviours. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems because it gives clear steps to change day-to-day habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take values-based action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for grief, stress and life changes where acceptance and purposeful action matter.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Catherine will talk through options and tailor methods to the person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can change as progress is made, and the therapist and client agree what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or for a faster check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter updates, ongoing coaching-style support or when someone prefers typed conversation. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while keeping therapy flexible and accessible.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
