Katherine Smalldon

Katherine Smalldon is a BACP counsellor with nine years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, depression, grief and life changes. She helps with a wide range of issues including addictions, parenting strains, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and challenges around career and self-esteem. Katherine also works with people affected by attachment issues, abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness and other complex life events.

Katherine offers a calm, patient approach and keeps sessions at the pace the client needs. Early meetings focus on understanding what someone hopes to change and what they fear about counselling. This lets her and the client agree practical goals and ways of working together.

Her style draws on several therapeutic approaches to match a person’s needs. She uses client-centred listening to make space for a person’s story. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas are used to spot patterns that keep problems going and to try new ways of responding. Attachment-based and narrative ideas inform work on relationships and personal history.

On the first session Katherine usually asks about hopes, expectations and what someone wants from therapy. She invites feedback along the way and adapts sessions as needed. This makes it easier to know whether the approach is helping and to change course if it isn’t.

People who haven't been to counselling before will find straightforward explanations about what to expect. Katherine encourages people to ask questions and take an active role in planning their work together.

How Katherine uses talking therapies online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current emotions and patterns. It helps when people want to understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and to build steadier ways of relating.

Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what is said and helps the person find their own answers and next steps.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep difficulties going. It breaks down problems into small, workable steps and tests new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Katherine will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and will adapt the blend of methods collaboratively. That conversation helps decide what to try first and when to change course.

Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online counselling can make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel and can reduce time spent travelling. It also allows sessions to be kept shorter or quieter when that suits someone's day. Registered or accredited professionals can work with clients across distances, and Katherine supports international clients, so practical arrangements are arranged together when booking.