Katherine Smalldon , BACP

Katherine Smalldon is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, and life changes. She works with people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues around parenting, eating and sleeping. Katherine also offers support for career strain, low self-esteem, ADHD and compassion fatigue, among other difficulties.

Katherine has nine years of practice and holds BACP registration, which means she is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She set up her practice to offer steady, practical help to people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by change. Sessions focus on what you want to achieve and move at the pace you prefer.

Her approach is integrative, drawing on attachment-based ideas, client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques. Conversations look at patterns in relationships and behaviour. Practical steps and new ways of thinking are introduced when helpful.

Katherine invites people to bring worries that are hard to name. Early sessions usually cover hopes, fears and expectations so goals are clear. She encourages questions and feedback throughout the therapeutic process to keep work relevant to your life.

She offers a calm, steady presence and aims to create a space where people can speak honestly about painful or confusing experiences. Katherine’s background and mix of approaches suit people who want both emotional understanding and practical ways to cope.

Online approaches that focus on relationships and change

Katherine uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. This approach helps people who notice repeating patterns in intimacy, trust or closeness by exploring how those patterns began and how they show up now.

She also uses client-centred work which is warm and non-directive. This helps when someone needs time to be heard and to find their own answers through guided reflection. Cognitive behavioural techniques are brought in to tackle anxious thinking and to teach practical skills for everyday coping.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Katherine will discuss goals and preferences with each person and decide together which methods suit their needs. This collaborative process helps make therapy feel relevant and manageable.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be useful when less bandwidth is available, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.