Catherine Kearns, BACP
5 years in practice
Catherine Kearns is a counsellor who focuses on helping people make sense of difficult moments.
License and registration
- BACP
- 398484 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Catherine
Catherine Kearns is a counsellor who focuses on helping people make sense of difficult moments. She uses an approachable, thoughtful style to support people feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed or stuck. Catherine holds BACP registration and brings five years of professional experience to her work.
She sees each person as an individual and starts by listening to what matters most to them. Sessions usually aim to clarify problems, set small achievable goals, and build practical ways to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Catherine often suggests short exercises or worksheets to highlight patterns and prompt change. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, ADHD and challenges around parenting. She also helps people dealing with career stress, chronic illness, grief and body image worries.
Catherine is comfortable working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. She draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit different needs, including existential thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based work, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. Catherine prefers a collaborative approach and tailors methods to each person rather than using one set way for everyone.
Sessions are available online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. New people begin by answering a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling an initial session. Catherine aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can take the next step toward change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Catherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Catherine names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Existential therapy helps people explore meaning, choice and the bigger questions that come up in hard times. It supports people facing life changes, loss, or a sense of being stuck by encouraging honest reflection and values-led choices.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, blends practical exercises with an emphasis on values. It helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting ruled by them and take small, concrete steps toward what matters in life. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships affect current connections and can help people improve communication and emotional safety in important relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is treated as a shared task. The counsellor listens to your goals and together you try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted as you progress so the work stays focused and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging suits quick updates or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family life and support consistent progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be brought to sessions?
The practice covers many concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem and ADHD among others.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
The style is warm and collaborative, mixing listening with practical tools. Catherine uses goal-setting, short exercises and reflective conversation to help people make changes.
What experience does the counsellor have?
Catherine has five years of professional experience working with a variety of concerns and opened her own clinical practice after ongoing development and work in the UK.
Where is the counsellor based and what are the credentials?
The counsellor is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in her credentials.
Can I work with the counsellor if I live abroad?
International clients are accepted and sessions can be arranged across borders in English.
Which session formats are offered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to begin working together?
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