Katie Lane, NCPS

Katie Lane works from a person-centred stance that puts the individual at the heart of therapy. She uses clear, practical talking and listening to help people who are facing relationship or intimacy concerns, LGBT-related issues, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress and addictive behaviours. Katie holds NCPS and has five years of experience in mental health and wellbeing roles.

She has spent a number of years leading mental health and wellbeing in educational settings and also runs a private practice. That mix gives her experience with everyday pressures as well as longer term struggles. She aims to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about difficult topics.

Katie adapts the way she works to what each person needs. She draws on client-centred therapy to follow the client’s lead, cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking and behaviour, and psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-standing patterns. Solution-focused tools are used when someone wants practical steps and quicker progress.

Common concerns she supports include relationship and intimacy problems, depression, sleep difficulties, career stress, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include body image, gender dysphoria, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and issues connected to kink and alternative sexual culture.

Katie describes her approach as respectful, sensitive and compassionate. She works to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s goals. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier by listening and helping people find clear, realistic next steps.

How Katie's approaches work online

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the client's pace. The therapist creates a non-judgemental space, helps people voice what matters and supports them to clarify goals and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple, practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep or change unhelpful habits.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Katie will discuss different ways of working and suggest methods based on the person's needs and aims. Together they decide whether to use conversational listening, targeted CBT tasks or short solution-focused steps for quicker progress.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or who want to fit messages into a busy day. These options help people fit therapy around work, study and caring responsibilities while keeping a steady course of support.