Catherine Norris
Calm, practical support for difficult life moments
About Catherine
Catherine Norris offers calm, straightforward support to people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients make sense of difficult feelings and find small, practical steps forward. With a steady manner, she helps people identify what matters to them and begin to move towards a more meaningful life.
She has 16 years of experience and is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, or BACP.
Background and approach
That background includes work in the NHS, two well-known charities and independent practice in Berkshire. This range has given her exposure to many different concerns and life situations. Catherine uses a pluralistic approach, drawing on several therapeutic methods to fit each person’s needs.
Sessions often look at how past experiences shape current patterns, and she helps clients build clearer thinking, practical coping skills and healthier responses. She focuses on values and what a person wants their life to look like. Her practice covers a wide set of issues such as stress, relationship difficulties, depression, addictions, bereavement and trauma.
Catherine also works with people facing long-term health problems, caregiving strain, communication or commitment issues and challenges linked to neurodiversity. In sessions she aims to create an accepting, steady environment where people can try new ways of being. She offers straightforward tools, gentle reflection and collaborative goal-setting to support lasting change.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and still act towards what matters to them. It develops values-based goals and teaches skills to live alongside painful feelings rather than be driven by them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and the issues you bring, then agree which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as you progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging offers short check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options help fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on the therapeutic relationship and practical 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
