Catherine Kearns
Catherine Kearns BACP counsellor
About Catherine
Catherine Kearns uses a blend of practical talking therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and life changes. She is a BACP registered counsellor with five years of professional experience. Catherine offers a calm, straightforward style and aims to help people make small, achievable changes that add up over time.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based work to match tools to a person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, setting short-term goals and practising simple exercises between meetings. Worksheets and behavioural tasks are used where helpful to build new habits. Catherine has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar and ADHD, and she also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting pressures and career stress.
She is comfortable working across cultural backgrounds and attends ongoing training to keep developing her practice. Her way of working is collaborative and practical. She encourages familiarisation through an initial live session, then agrees attainable steps to work on together.
Progress is checked in regular reviews so the plan can change if needed. Catherine offers appointments online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. International clients are welcome and sessions are held in English.
Prospective clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling their first appointment.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches available online
Catherine uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as core parts of her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behaviour changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past relationships shape current responses. This can help when people struggle with trust, closeness or repeating the same patterns in relationships. The therapist will talk through which approach or combination suits the person's situation and agree a plan together in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full face-to-face style session, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer to work in writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
