About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and life changes. She also helps with issues such as addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, and career worries. Catherine works with people who have ADHD and those affected by compassion fatigue.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients from the United Kingdom. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
Background and approach
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on practical tools to manage thoughts, emotions and behaviours so people can make clearer decisions. Catherine is honest about the effort involved and frames therapy as a joint process rather than a quick fix.
Catherine draws on somatic approaches to help people notice and work with bodily responses alongside Psychological tools such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ideas to shape supportive conversations. These methods are brought together in ways that match each person’s needs and goals.
She has four years of professional experience and holds NCPS as a credential. Catherine offers appointments at varied times and can sometimes arrange sessions outside her usual schedule by mutual agreement. Sessions are provided by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different preferences.
To begin, a person can press the Start Therapy button, fill a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotions show up in the body and uses simple, guided awareness and movement to reduce tension and reactivity. This can be helpful for trauma, anxiety and chronic stress where the body holds patterns of arousal.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward those values while learning new ways to relate to difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing alternative ways of responding to reduce distress and improve everyday functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative planning can change as therapy progresses, so adjustments are made together.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue when travel or mobility are a problem. These formats allow practical exercises, conversations about body awareness, and skill-building to happen in ways that suit the individual’s routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English