Catherine Cross

BACP · United Kingdom

Calm practical support for everyday overwhelm

Experience

4 years

Practising in

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Session type

Online only

About Catherine

Catherine Cross offers a calm, down-to-earth space for people feeling overwhelmed by everyday life. She works with stress, anxiety, depression and loss, and helps with parenting and relationship strain. Catherine presents as warm and practical, focusing on what matters to each person.

Catherine has four years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. Her background includes work for the NHS, a local children’s centre supporting parents, and a independent practice seeing adults for short and long-term work.

Background and approach

She also supports construction industry workers through a charity and has experience liaising with schools around special educational needs. She pays particular attention to neurodiversity and how it can affect mental health. That interest informs how she listens and adapts conversations so people feel understood.

Sessions aim to help clients feel calmer and clearer about next steps. Catherine draws on a mix of approaches to suit different needs. She uses client-centred ways of working to prioritise the person’s perspective, cognitive behavioural techniques to address thinking and behaviour patterns, and psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper life patterns when useful.

People come to her wanting help with a wide range of concerns beyond mood, including addiction, grief, intimacy and body image. Catherine also supports those dealing with parenting stress, caregiver strain and family problems. She helps clients make decisions, regain confidence and find a greater sense of purpose.

Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, chat or text. Catherine is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).

What Catherine works with

Primary focus

Also works with

How Catherine works

Client-Centred Therapy

Listed by Catherine among the ways they work.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Listed by Catherine among the ways they work.

Existential Therapy

Listed by Catherine among the ways they work.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Listed by Catherine among the ways they work.

Sessions & fees

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behaviour. Online CBT often uses short practical exercises and structured conversations to tackle anxiety, mood problems and sleep or eating concerns.

Client-Centred Therapy centres on the person’s own experience and priorities. In online sessions this means the counsellor listens carefully, reflects what matters and helps people find their own solutions for issues like relationship strain, parenting stress or low self-esteem.

Finding the best way of working is a shared process. Catherine will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try different techniques until a good fit emerges. The aim is to decide together whether to focus on practical skills, explore deeper patterns, or both.

Online therapy offers flexibility that can suit busy lives. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging can fit brief reflections into a day. These options make it easier to work around work, caregiving and travel while keeping therapy consistent.

Session length	Typically 50 minutes
Client ages	Adults, 18 and over
Fees	Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime
Insurance	Not billed directly

Questions people ask

What concerns does Catherine commonly help with?

Catherine works with many everyday and complex difficulties such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and parenting strain, addictions, trauma and self-esteem issues.

What kind of therapy style does she use?

She combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques and psychodynamic ideas to match the work to each person’s needs and goals.

How much experience does she have?

Catherine has four years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom across the NHS, a children’s centre, charity work and independent practice.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.

How does the subscription and cost work?

Session cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.