Catherine Teale (Richards), BACP
Compassionate integrative counsellor focused on wellbeing
About Catherine
Catherine Teale (Richards) helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She supports those facing addictions, grief, low self-esteem and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also works with people dealing with sleep or eating difficulties, ADHD, career strain and major life changes.
Catherine describes herself as warm and approachable. She aims to offer a calm space where people can feel heard. Sessions focus on building understanding and practical ways to manage difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She uses a gentle, non-judgemental manner to help visitors feel safer to talk. Her approach is integrative and person-centred. She draws on a variety of methods to suit each person’s needs rather than one fixed method.
Conversations may look at past experiences and present patterns so people can notice what gets in the way and what helps. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Therapeutic Counselling and is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has four years of professional practice experience offering support to adults and young people.
In sessions she typically works at the client’s pace and uses everyday language. Practical skills, gentle exploration of feelings, and attention to how the body responds are commonly part of her work. People often leave with ideas they can try between meetings.
She offers therapy in English from the United Kingdom and uses online formats to reach people who prefer remote sessions. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions after matching.
How Somatic and Talking Approaches Work Online
Catherine draws on Somatic-informed work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice both felt body sensations and their thoughts. Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds tension and emotion, and can help with stress, trauma responses and chronic pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values-based action and learning to make space for difficult thoughts while moving toward meaningful goals.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Catherine will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to fit each person’s needs and preferences. That means the plan can change as trust builds and goals shift, with the client involved in choices about focus and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use facial cues and tone, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging suit those who prefer writing or need short, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and mobility constraints while still working collaboratively with a registered professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English