Kate Jarvis
Calm, strengths-focused counselling for everyday struggles
About Kate
Kate Jarvis offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and life changes. She writes in plain terms and helps individuals find clearer ways to cope. Kate aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a client-centred approach that puts the person and their story at the centre of sessions. Kate treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them draw on their strengths.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters now and on small changes that build confidence. In her four years of professional practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns. These include depression, grief and loss, sleep problems, addiction-related issues and stress linked to work or caregiving.
She also supports people facing attachment and abandonment issues, communication difficulties and the effects of trauma and abuse. Kate works with people dealing with physical health challenges such as chronic pain, illness or cancer, and with those navigating separation or changes in commitments. She also offers help around parenting stresses, anger and career dilemmas.
Sessions are conversational and paced to suit each person. The emphasis is on listening carefully, reflecting back what matters, and helping clients try new ways of coping. Kate aims to empower people so they can make helpful choices in day-to-day life.
What Kate works with
How Kate works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred support delivered online
Kate uses client-centred therapy which means sessions focus on the person's own experience and priorities. This approach helps people who are dealing with anxiety, low confidence, grief or relationship concerns by offering a non-judgemental space to make sense of feelings and choices.She helps clients draw on their strengths and aims to listen deeply rather than direct or diagnose. That makes it easier to try out practical changes between sessions, such as new ways to manage stress or improve sleep. This approach can be useful for people facing life transitions, chronic health issues or struggles with attachment and self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and Kate treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adjust the way she supports someone as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins and messaging suits people who prefer to write. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
