Catherine Pinder

• Stress and anxiety
• Grief and loss
• LGBT issues

About Catherine

Catherine Pinder works with stress, anxiety, LGBT issues, grief, depression and ADHD, using a humanistic and integrative counselling style. She is BACP registered and has five years' formal counselling experience.

Catherine describes therapy as more than talking. She focuses on listening, understanding and practical support so people can regain a sense of self. Sessions are described in straightforward terms and aim to be paced to each person's needs.

Her background includes mentoring, teaching and youth work. She holds a Level 3 Youth Work Award and a Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification, and has worked with adults and young people on identity and personal development. She also spent part of her career as a senior investigator on safeguarding and trauma-related cases.

That experience informs her work with trauma, grief and life-limiting illness. She notes specialist training in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBT issues, counselling children and young people, working therapeutically with autistic clients, and care for life-limiting conditions. Catherine uses those perspectives alongside humanistic principles and integrative practice to shape sessions.

In practical terms sessions focus on clear, manageable steps. People might talk through current problems, look at coping strategies, and practise skills to manage distress. The emphasis is on steady progress and on building confidence, self-awareness and emotional resilience.

Sessions are delivered from the United Kingdom and she works in English. International clients are accepted, and details about session arrangements and scheduling are provided when booking.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions

Two notable strands of her practice are humanistic counselling and integrative work. Humanistic counselling focuses on listening, respect and helping people describe their experience; it suits issues like low mood, identity concerns and relationship difficulties. Integrative work draws ideas from different approaches so techniques can be chosen to match current problems, for example practical strategies for panic or paced exploration for grief.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals, needs and preferences. That means approaches can change as things move forward.

Practical benefits of online sessions are about fitting therapy into everyday life. Online counselling can make it easier to schedule meetings around work or family commitments and to keep continuity when travel is difficult. The profile does not specify session formats here, so please confirm current session options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals generally use online sessions to offer shorter check-ins, regular weekly meetings and flexible timing that can suit different routines.

Topics Catherine lists

• Stress and anxiety
• LGBT
• Grief
• Depression
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Adoption and foster care
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Codependency
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dependent personality
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family of origin issues
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Guilt and shame
• HIV and AIDS
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Impulsivity
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Men's issues
• Midlife crisis
• Veteran and armed forces issues
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Narcissism
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexuality
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Visually impaired
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Questions about Catherine

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed as core concerns she helps people with.

What kind of counselling approach does she use?

She practises a humanistic and integrative counselling style, combining person-centred work with techniques from multiple approaches.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has five years' counselling experience, alongside a longer career in mentoring, youth work and investigative safeguarding roles.

Is she part of any professional body and where is she based?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.

Can I have sessions in a language other than English?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

Yes. The profile notes that international clients are accepted.

How are sessions charged and what about cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Use the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.