Catherine Cross, BACP

She has four years of professional experience and has worked in the NHS, at a local children's centre supporting parents, and in independent practice with adults. She also supports workers in the construction industry through a charity role. Sessions are practical and conversational.

Catherine draws on client-centred work to make people feel heard and on cognitive behavioural ideas to help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. She also uses psychodynamic and existential ideas to look at patterns that may underlie present problems.

People come to Catherine for many concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, relationship and family difficulties, addiction issues, sleep or eating struggles, and challenges linked to neurodiversity. She also addresses attachment and abandonment themes, body image, communication problems and caregiver stress. Catherine aims to help people manage immediate difficulties and make longer term changes when needed.

She encourages honest discussion about goals and works at a pace that suits the person. Practical coping strategies and clearer choices are central to her approach.