Katherine Smalldon, BACP

Katherine Smalldon is a BACP counsellor with nine years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stuck, anxious, low or overwhelmed by life changes. Kate offers a calm space for those who want to talk things through at their own pace.

She works with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship and intimacy issues. She also supports people facing grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, parenting pressures, and the strain of chronic illness or cancer. Other areas she covers include eating, sleeping and anger difficulties, ADHD, bipolar and career concerns.

Her approach is conversational and person-focused. Early sessions explore what a person hopes to change and what they worry about. This helps set goals together and shape how the work will continue.

Katherine draws on several ways of working, including attachment-based approaches, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural ideas. She also uses narrative and existential ideas to help people look at their life story and what gives it meaning.

Sessions are paced to each person. Kate encourages questions and feedback, and will check in about progress as therapy continues. She accepts international clients and sees people across a wide range of issues related to living with health challenges and everyday struggles.

How Katherine's approaches work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions can help people notice patterns with partners, friends or family and practise different ways of relating.

Client-centred counselling focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's agenda. In an online meeting this means time to talk about what matters most and to set goals together at a comfortable pace.

Cognitive behavioural techniques look at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and try practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Used online, this can include short activities or simple homework to try between sessions and review together.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and agree what feels most useful based on a client's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can change as therapy progresses.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm which options are currently offered before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, save travel time and allow check-ins from different locations. It may also allow shorter or more frequent contact when that better suits someone’s routine.