Catherine Pinder
Empathic humanistic counsellor offering tailored support
About Catherine
Catherine Pinder offers a calm, listening presence for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or depression. She welcomes clients from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBT or who are managing ADHD. Catherine writes plainly and meets people where they are, aiming to help them feel heard and understood in sessions.
She works from a humanistic and integrative perspective and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
That means she brings together different ways of working to match what a person needs in the moment. Sessions are shaped around the individual's concerns rather than a fixed formula. Catherine has five years of direct counselling experience and a long career mentoring and teaching across different settings.
She has worked in safeguarding roles and on complex cases, which has informed her understanding of trauma and exploitation. This experience helps her stay practical and grounded in sessions. Her earlier roles include youth engagement work, where she supported young people through identity questions and crises.
She also has training in supporting people facing grief, trauma, suicidal feelings, LGBT issues, autism and life-limiting illness. These elements feed into how she plans and adapts sessions. Catherine aims to help people reclaim confidence and build emotional strength.
She offers straightforward support for practical problems and emotional concerns, and she collaborates with each person to set clear steps during therapy.
What Catherine works with
Sessions & fees
How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Humanistic counselling focuses on the person as a whole and on being heard. In practice this means sessions are patient-led, with the counsellor reflecting concerns and helping clients identify what matters most. It is useful for people facing low mood, anxiety and identity questions.Integrative work blends different evidence-based techniques to match a client's needs. That might include practical coping strategies for stress, supportive exploration of grief, or ways to manage attention and concentration difficulties. The aim is to use whatever fits the client's goals and situation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey and will be explored together. The counsellor and client review needs, goals and preferences and agree the best methods as therapy progresses. This collaborative planning helps ensure sessions feel relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and time permit, phone sessions work well for quieter check-ins and those who do not want to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter updates or people with limited time. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
