Catherine Smith
Calm, practical support for change
About Catherine
Catherine Smith welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or unsure where to start. She writes simply and directly, offering steady support for stress, anxiety, low mood and struggles with self-esteem. Catherine also helps people facing relationship strain, grief, addictions and intimacy-related issues.
She works from the view that each person knows their own life best. Catherine treats clients as partners in the work and focuses on practical changes that make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
She uses hypnotherapy alongside talking work to help with sleep problems, social anxiety and unhelpful thoughts. Over 15 years she has helped people manage feelings of guilt, shame and isolation. She also supports those wanting to build self-love, improve communication and find more meaning or life purpose.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused, with tools people can use between meetings. Catherine holds NCPS, which is noted here as her listed credential. She offers sessions in English and accepts clients from the United Kingdom and abroad.
Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Catherine seeks to create a calm space for honest conversation and practical steps forward.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
How hypnotherapy and online sessions can help
Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. In Catherine's practice it is used alongside conversation to support problems such as sleep difficulties, social anxiety and persistent negative thinking.Working together, the client and therapist will decide which approach fits best. Catherine aims to be collaborative and will adjust techniques to match each person’s goals, preferences and everyday life. Finding the right method is part of the treatment and may change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different situations. Video calls suit longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins and messaging lets people write between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel and family commitments while accessing registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Grief
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
