Cathy Hadley
Experienced BACP counsellor helping with stress and relationships
About Cathy
Cathy Hadley is a United Kingdom-based counsellor with 11 years of experience. She is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and works to make early steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Cathy focuses on stress and anxiety, low mood and depression, and relationship difficulties.
She also helps people after trauma and abuse, and with self-esteem and confidence. Additional areas she supports include parenting, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD and career-related stress.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and straightforward. Cathy aims to create a calm space where people can speak openly without judgement. She listens first, then works with each person to shape a plan that fits their situation and goals.
Sessions are arranged to fit practical schedules, and she can add time slots where needed. Cathy accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. Her registration with BACP is part of her professional standing in the UK.
People come for help with specific problems and for support through bigger life changes. Cathy draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs, and she explains methods in plain language during sessions. Starting therapy can feel hard, and she aims to make the process steady and understandable.
What Cathy works with
How Cathy works
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Sessions & fees
How Cathy’s approaches work online
Cathy uses attachment-based and client-centred methods alongside cognitive behavioural techniques. Attachment-based work looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current feelings and reactions, which can help with trust and connection issues. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard; it suits those who want a supportive, non-directive space. Cognitive behavioural work helps identify upsetting thoughts and try practical steps to change unhelpful habits, which often aids anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cathy will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. She adapts the way she uses these approaches so they match your situation, and she reviews progress as you go.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual contact and a fuller interaction. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins or if typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to arrange therapy around work, family or travel commitments while still getting steady support from a registered professional.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
