Katherine Smalldon
Skilful, steady counselling for life’s difficult moments
About Katherine
Katherine Smalldon helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma, addiction, grief, sleep or eating concerns, and parenting pressures. She also supports people facing major life changes, chronic illness, career worries, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Katherine uses a calm, steady approach so people can speak at their own pace and feel understood.
Katherine trained as a counsellor and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
She has nine years of practice and draws on that experience to tailor sessions to each person. Initial meetings are used to clarify hopes, worries and what someone wants from therapy so sessions can be focused and useful. Her style is collaborative and person-centred.
Conversations aim to make sense of patterns in relationships and behaviour, and to build small, practical changes that fit daily life. Katherine can also work with deeper material over time when people want to examine past experiences or attachment issues. She draws on cognitive-behavioural tools when helping with persistent anxiety or sleep and eating problems.
Narrative ideas are used to help people reframe difficult life stories and find new ways to move forward. Attachment ideas guide work with connection, intimacy and relationship patterns. Katherine offers a steady, patient presence and encourages questions throughout therapy.
The process is paced to what each person needs, and she supports practical steps between sessions as well as reflection during them.
What Katherine works with
How Katherine works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy and what they offer
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses; it can help when intimacy, separation or trust are repeating issues. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience without judgement, helping people find their own answers and regain confidence. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, gives clear strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and habits and is often useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep and eating difficulties.Katherine treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that feel sensible and adjust as work progresses, matching pace and focus to the client's needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or mobility needs while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
| 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
