Katherine Smalldon, BACP

Katherine Smalldon is a BACP counsellor with nine years of practice helping people through a wide range of problems. She offers straightforward support when life feels off track, whether someone is facing stress, anxiety, relationship or intimacy issues, depression, grief, or major life changes.

Her style is calm and paced to the client. Sessions begin by outlining hopes and expectations so work stays focused on what matters. Katherine prefers to move at a client's speed and to invite questions and feedback as therapy continues.

She draws on several approaches to suit different needs, including Attachment-Based work to look at relationships and connection, Client-Centred methods that place the person's experience first, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address thoughts and behaviours. These are used in simple, practical ways rather than technical language.

Katherine also supports people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career issues and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and ADHD. She pays attention to how past experiences, including abandonment or adoption and foster care, shape present patterns.

In sessions she will listen, reflect, and offer tools and perspectives to help someone make decisions or cope through crises. The aim is to help people notice options, try different ways of responding, and build clearer direction in life.

Practicalities such as session format and scheduling are discussed during the initial matching and intake process so therapy fits around everyday life.

How Katherine's approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships affect feeling close to others and managing trust. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities, offering a space where they lead the conversation and the counsellor reflects and supports their choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, aims to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and to practise small changes that reduce distress and improve coping.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and together they will decide which ideas to try. That collaborative process can shift over time as priorities change.

Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face contact without travel, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to arrange sessions around work, caring duties or mobility needs, and let people keep therapy consistent even when life changes.