Catherine Garbutt, NCPS

Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strains, anger and self-esteem. Catherine works with neurodivergent and neurotypical people and accepts international clients. Catherine holds NCPS as a credential and has four years of professional experience.

Catherine uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people make sense of difficult feelings. Sessions are collaborative - she listens, reflects and offers tools to try between meetings. Work together focuses on small steps that build confidence and coping. Catherine emphasises realistic goals rather than quick fixes.

Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods, including cognitive techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based strategies to reduce struggling with difficult emotions. Attachment ideas are used to understand relationship patterns, and skills from dialectical approaches help with strong mood swings and emotional regulation. The aim is to match methods to the person’s needs rather than follow a set script.

Catherine describes therapy as a team effort that asks for honest work from both sides. People can expect practical strategies, reflections on past patterns and support making different choices going forward. Sessions aim to leave people better equipped to manage problems on their own.

She offers a range of appointment times and is open to arranging sessions outside her usual schedule where possible. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then arrange sessions according to her availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting swept up by them. It focuses on what matters to the person and on taking committed action toward those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating issues. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help people understand and change repeated relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will discuss options and adapt techniques to fit each person’s goals, needs and preferences. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable rather than imposed from the start.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when movement is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to maintain continuity when circumstances change.