Catherine Mantack
Supportive counsellor for everyday pressures
About Catherine
Catherine Mantack helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those struggling with self-esteem and motivation. She works with individuals facing parenting challenges and family conflict. Catherine aims to make the first step feel manageable and kind to yourself.
Catherine practises in the United Kingdom and brings four years of professional experience to her work. She creates a respectful, non-judgemental space where clients set the pace. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a fixed formula.
Background and approach
In therapy she focuses on practical conversation and simple strategies people can try between sessions. She pays attention to how family dynamics and daily routines affect mood and confidence. Communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation, and social anxiety are common topics she helps clients talk through.
Catherine supports people exploring attention and focus differences such as ADHD alongside issues with self-love and feeling disconnected. She listens for the small patterns that make life harder and helps clients identify concrete changes they want to test. Her style is compassionate and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect straightforward dialogue, gentle challenge, and collaborative goal-setting. Catherine aims to help people build skills that fit their everyday life and lead to clearer thinking and more calm.
What Catherine works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Two evidence-based approaches commonly used by counsellors are practical problem-focused work and emotional processing. Practical problem-focused work looks at current difficulties and breaks them into small, manageable steps to try between sessions; it helps with stress, organisation and motivation. Emotional processing focuses on recognising and naming feelings, which can reduce shame, guilt and social anxiety by making emotions easier to talk about and manage.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust as learning happens. That collaborative process helps find what feels most useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy offers different ways to meet depending on what suits someone that week. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for people who prefer writing, want ongoing short exchanges, or need flexibility around work and family 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
