Katharine (Kate) James
Practical, client-centred support for stress and relationships
About Katharine
Katharine (Kate) James uses a client-centred, practical style to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and hypnotherapy to help clients make small, steady changes. Kate has seventeen years of experience and holds the NCPS credential.
Kate keeps sessions straightforward and humane. She listens first and then helps people notice patterns that cause distress. Together they try out things that reduce worry, improve sleep, or ease difficult emotions.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on relationships and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps with grief, low self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, and coping with career strain. Additional areas she attends to include abandonment, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and issues arising from family of origin.
Practical tools are paired with reflective work. That means learning small skills from CBT alongside conversations about feelings and attachment using Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Imago ideas. Hypnotherapy and mindfulness techniques are offered when they suit the client’s goals.
Kate offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and vary with location and therapist availability. She works from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a slot.
What Katharine works with
How Katharine works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. The therapist listens, reflects and follows the client’s pace to help them feel understood and find their own solutions. This approach is useful for stress, low confidence and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours. It is practical and often helps with anxiety, sleep problems and low mood by teaching bite-sized strategies clients can use between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional responses that affect relationships and connection. It is helpful when communication breaks down or patterns of distance and conflict keep recurring.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will explore goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then introduce or blend methods collaboratively. That way the work fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people work with non-verbal cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and help people fit appointments around work, family or other commitments.
| 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
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
