Natalie Mccarthy
Gentle integrative counselling for everyday challenges
About Natalie
Natalie Mccarthy is a counsellor with four years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and offers an integrative approach that adapts to each person's needs. Natalie focuses on helping people reconnect with their strengths and sense of self.
She aims to make sessions feel straightforward and approachable for people under pressure. Natalie works from a place of acceptance and practical understanding. Sessions emphasise being heard and treated with respect while also addressing difficult topics when needed.
Background and approach
She combines elements from several therapeutic styles to suit each person rather than following a single method. People come to Natalie for many different concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, addictions and ADHD. She also supports those coping with chronic pain, caregiver stress, body image and issues linked to identity and sexuality.
Her practice includes work on eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career changes and coping with major life transitions. In session Natalie commonly uses client-centred listening alongside techniques drawn from cognitive approaches and attachment work. She aims to balance empathy with clear, practical steps someone can try between appointments.
When helpful she draws on mindfulness and emotion regulation tools to manage overwhelming feelings. People who prefer calm, down-to-earth conversations tend to find her style useful. Natalie invites clients to explore what matters to them and to build small, manageable changes that fit real life.
The process is collaborative and paced to suit each individual. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability via the Start Therapy button.
What Natalie works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and supports rebuilding safety and trust in how they relate to others.Client-centred counselling prioritises being listened to without judgement. The counsellor follows the person’s pace and concerns, offering empathy and reflection to help someone find their own answers and strengths.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours affect one another. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and develop healthier coping habits for issues like anxiety, depression and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and how someone responds to different ways of working. Decisions about methods are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video suits fuller conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, while live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
