Catherine Teale (Richards)
Kind, practical support for life challenges
About Catherine
Catherine Teale (Richards) helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and trauma. She supports concerns such as depression, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, and career worries. She also offers support around ADHD, bipolar and a range of attachment and personality-related concerns.
Catherine has four years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation. Her style is warm and straightforward. She aims to make people feel heard and understood, offering a calm presence and a gentle voice.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to suit the individual, giving space to reflect on past and present issues without pressure. Catherine describes her approach as integrative. She draws on techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, emotionally-focused work and attachment-based ideas.
This allows her to match methods to each person's needs rather than using a single model for everyone. In practical terms she listens, offers alternative perspectives and helps people become curious about patterns that affect their life. Therapy can include talking, practical tools and exercises to try between sessions.
The aim is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes. Catherine works online with people in the United Kingdom. Sessions are available in English and are offered by subscription so they can be adjusted or cancelled as needed.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
What Catherine works with
How Catherine works
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Sessions & fees
Ways Catherine’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters rather than getting stuck in thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present patterns and helps people build clearer expectations and safer emotional responses. It can be helpful for issues around intimacy, abandonment and attachment wounds.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Catherine will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit each person's needs and goals. Together they will try approaches and adjust them as needed so therapy reflects personal preferences and the issues being addressed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a more traditional conversation style. Phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or have lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and written reflection possible between longer sessions. These options can help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
