Cathleen Brentnall
Practical support for relationships and life changes
About Cathleen
Cathleen Brentnall offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by relationships, grief, anxiety or big life changes. She welcomes conversations about parenting stress, work pressures, low mood, and difficulties with sleep or eating. Cathleen presents as calm and practical and aims to help people find small steps they can use right away.
Cathleen uses a mix of talking therapies and focused techniques to suit each person. Sessions often centre on values, practical coping skills and understanding patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She may include exercises that help process upsetting memories, shift unhelpful thinking or build clearer emotional connection with others. She holds BACP membership, and has worked in therapeutic roles for around 10 years. Much of her experience involves helping people manage relationship issues, trauma and loss, and the stresses of family life and work.
That background shapes a practical, goal-focused way of working. Cathleen explains things plainly and adapts her approach to how someone learns and makes decisions. Conversations aim to identify strengths, notice sources of energy and uncover small changes that make day-to-day life easier.
She can also bring faith into sessions when a client wants that included. Sessions are offered from the United Kingdom and are carried out in English. Cathleen is open to working with people from other countries and uses a range of formats to suit different lifestyles, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to someone and taking small, value-guided steps even when feelings are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps people process distressing memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation, which can ease symptoms after trauma.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try approaches that fit the person's needs and adapt techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions give flexibility for different routines and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, and live chat or text messaging suits shorter conversations or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional support.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
