Kat Hurst
Trauma and anxiety focused counsellor
About Kat
Kat Hurst offers therapeutic support for people coping with anxiety, trauma and related concerns. She works from a gendered perspective with women and girls and those who identify as female from age 14 onwards. Kat explains things simply and helps people manage difficult feelings in practical ways.
Kat uses an integrative, phased approach to recovery. She creates space to talk about experiences of physical, sexual or psychological abuse, neglect, and the anxiety that can follow.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building safety, reducing distressing symptoms, and developing skills to manage flashbacks, panic and low self-esteem. Her work draws on a range of evidence-based techniques, including cognitive and humanistic methods, adapted to each person. Conversations are collaborative - she listens, reflects, and helps people try new ways of responding to old patterns.
Pace and timing are decided together so things do not feel rushed. Before training as a counsellor, Kat worked in mental health hospitals and supported adolescents and adults with eating disorders. That clinical background informs how she supports those with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and related issues, and she asks that clients with eating disorders remain under medical care while in therapy.
People come to Kat for help with panic attacks, obsessive worrying, relationship strain, body image and shame, and for recovery after traumatic events. She aims to help people regain control, improve self-worth, and build a clearer sense of direction.
What Kat works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy works
Kat often combines cognitive methods with humanistic and existential ideas to help people make sense of distressing thoughts and feelings. Cognitive techniques look at unhelpful thinking patterns and teach practical strategies to reduce anxiety and panic. Humanistic and existential approaches focus on personal meaning, choice and self-awareness to help people understand their values and regain a sense of agency.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, life context and preferences and then agree a way forward together. That collaborative process means techniques are adjusted over time so they fit the person's needs and pace of recovery.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit work into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual interaction for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing reflection between sessions and can help when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. Many people find the range of formats helps them stay consistent with therapy and try new coping strategies in everyday life.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
