Katherine Smalldon, BACP

Katherine Smalldon is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, depression, grief and life changes. She also supports those dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, sleep or eating problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem and career worries. Katherine works with people who have ADHD, compassion fatigue or bipolar concerns and addresses more specific areas such as abandonment, attachment difficulties and communication problems.

Katherine trained and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has worked in counselling for nine years and runs an integrative practice shaped around each person’s needs. In early sessions she asks about hopes, fears and expectations to help set realistic goals and plan the way forward.

Her approach is collaborative and paced to the client. People can expect a calm, impartial space where they set the pace and offer feedback along the way. She listens for patterns in relationships and behaviour, and helps clients notice practical steps they can try between sessions.

Katherine blends talking therapies from attachment-based, client-centred and cognitive behavioural traditions with narrative and existential ideas. That mix helps when people want to understand past experiences and change present patterns. The work can include exploring stories people tell about themselves and testing small changes to day-to-day thinking and behaviour.

Sessions begin with an open conversation about what the client wants from therapy. Katherine encourages questions and adapts the process as needs shift. If you are unsure what to expect, a first meeting can clarify whether this way of working feels right.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Katherine draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and connections. This approach can help when someone feels stuck in repeating relationship patterns or has strong fears about loss or abandonment.

She also uses client-centred principles that focus on listening, acceptance and following the client’s lead. That way of working helps people feel heard and decide the pace and direction of change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will explore what matters to the client and agree together which methods to try, checking in and adjusting as goals shift. The process is collaborative and flexible rather than fixed.

The practical benefits of online therapy often include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to have a shorter check-in, manage appointments around work, or use video or phone options if that suits the person better. The exact session formats for this therapist were not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking.