Kate Neligan
Supportive integrative counsellor for everyday challenges
About Kate
Kate Neligan is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 16 years' experience. She holds BACP membership, and she works with people who are facing stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. Kate also supports those dealing with addictions, trauma, sleep and eating difficulties, and struggles with self-esteem or career pressures.
She trained in integrative psychotherapy, and she blends different methods to suit each person. That means sessions can draw on attachment-based ideas, psychodynamic thinking, client-centred listening, or solution-focused steps.
Background and approach
Sessions may be short-term or longer term depending on what someone needs. Kate describes her style as empathic and collaborative. She aims to treat people with compassion and respect and to agree a working plan together.
In practice this means listening first, helping someone name what matters, and offering straightforward ways to try things differently between sessions. Her background includes independent practice work and roles within the NHS. That experience informs a flexible approach to common concerns such as relationship strain, bereavement, addiction, ADHD-related needs, and caregiver stress.
She is comfortable working with both immediate practical problems and deeper patterns that have built up over time. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. People start by using the site matching process to choose a therapist and then schedule sessions to suit their situation.
Kate adapts session pacing and methods to the goals set by each person.
What Kate works with
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice how they form bonds, respond to loss, or cope with trust issues, and then try different ways of relating.Client-centred therapy is about being heard without judgement. The counsellor offers attentive listening and gentle reflection to help someone clarify their own goals and move forward at their own pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor and person work together to choose which methods to try based on needs, goals and personal preference. That may mean combining approaches over time and adjusting the focus as things evolve.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful when non-verbal cues matter; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or the camera feels difficult; live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while keeping the therapeutic plan consistent.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
