Catharine "Cathy" Douglas
Relational counsellor focused on practical change
About Catharine
Catharine "Cathy" Douglas offers a relational, client-led approach rooted in client-centred practice. She focuses on helping people make sense of difficult feelings and regain a sense of control. Cathy aims to create a respectful space where clients feel heard and able to explore the issues that matter to them.
Cathy draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person’s needs, including mindfulness, solution-focused techniques and trauma-informed work. She uses short and longer-term sessions depending on what will help a person reach their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and steady, aimed at building inner resources and healthier patterns of behaviour. People come to Cathy for a wide range of concerns. She works with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief and relationship difficulties.
She also supports those coping with life changes, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, trauma and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes additional areas such as body image, attachment and dissociation-related issues, caregiver stress, cancer-related distress and career-related worries. She also assists people dealing with abandonment, commitment and communication problems.
Clients can expect a calm, person-focused style that encourages self-awareness and practical steps forward. Cathy has 12 years of experience and holds NCPS as a credential. She works in the United Kingdom and delivers sessions in English to people in the UK and internationally.
What Catharine works with
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Sessions & fees
How Cathy's Approaches Work Online
Cathay blends client-centred work with mindfulness and solution-focused methods to suit online therapy. Client-centred therapy means the counsellor follows what the person brings and supports them to make sense of their feelings. It helps with low self-esteem, relationship worries and making clearer choices.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and manage stress and anxiety. Solution-focused therapy looks at small, achievable steps and practical strategies to move past a stuck problem and build on what already works.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Cathy will help clients decide which methods fit their goals, needs and preferences. She adapts interventions as trust grows and as progress becomes clearer, keeping the process collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls suit longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments and to keep momentum between sessions.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
