- Years in practice
- 4
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Catherine
Catherine Cross is a counsellor who focuses on helping parents and adults who feel overwhelmed by everyday pressures. She speaks plainly and listens with a warm, down-to-earth manner. Her approach suits people who want practical help with stress, anxiety, low mood, or life changes.
Catherine holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. Catherine has worked in the NHS, at a local children's centre supporting parents, and in independent practice.
Background and approach
She also supports workers in the construction industry through a charity. This mix of settings means she is used to short and longer term work and to a wide range of life problems. She has particular interest and experience around neurodiversity and how it affects mental health.
Catherine has also worked in schools with parents of children who have special educational needs, so she understands many parenting challenges. In sessions she aims to help people find clarity and calm. She will listen without judgement and help you make decisions you can live with.
Conversations can focus on managing anxiety, coping with grief or loss, dealing with relationship strain, or finding ways to handle daily pressures. Catherine uses a blend of approaches tailored to each person. She works collaboratively to decide what will help most, whether that is short-term problem solving or deeper exploration of patterns and feelings.
Her goal is to help people feel more in control and regain a sense of purpose in their lives.
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Catherine helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Catherine lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Catherine blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas to help people make practical changes. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, empathy and responding to what you bring. It helps people feel understood and able to talk about hard things in their own way. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers tools to manage anxious or low mood symptoms and to change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide what methods are most helpful. That might mean using more practical CBT tools for short-term problems or spending more time understanding life patterns with a client-centred lens.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy around family and work. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility and make regular support more manageable for busy parents and adults.
Questions people ask about Catherine
What kinds of problems does Catherine help with?
Catherine supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and parenting concerns. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, addictions and other life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She offers a warm, down-to-earth listening style and works collaboratively. Sessions can be practical and problem-focused or more reflective, depending on what the person needs.
What is her background and experience?
She has four years' experience working in the NHS, a children’s centre, a charity for construction workers, and in independent practice. That range includes both short-term and longer-term work.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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