Catherine Dicken, BACP

Catherine Dicken helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and relationship or family concerns. Catherine's approach is practical and down-to-earth, focused on small steps that fit into everyday life.

She uses talking, reflection and structured exercises to help people notice what matters to them. That can include exploring difficult memories, working on how to relate to others, and building simple habits for better sleep, eating or mood. Catherine also supports people facing addiction, career strain, parenting challenges and major life changes.

Her work draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, client-centred listening, Mindfulness and Narrative Therapy. These methods are used to help people identify values, understand patterns, and tell their story in a different way. Catherine tailors sessions to each person rather than delivering a fixed programme.

She holds BACP as a recorded credential and has four years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. Catherine aims to help people feel more capable of handling daily pressures and painful life events. Her style is steady, compassionate and practical.

If you want to explore how to cope with anxiety, grief, relationship strain or changes at work or home, she can help you set achievable goals and try new ways of responding. To begin, confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available.

How Catherine’s approaches can work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and build small, practical steps that match those values. It suits worries like anxiety, low motivation and coping with life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current responses; it can help with trust, abandonment or attachment-related struggles. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on empathic listening and reflecting back your experience, so people feel understood and can explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Catherine will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit their goals and preferences, and she adapts tools as the work unfolds. That means methods can change as needs become clearer rather than sticking to a single plan.

Confirm the available session options before you book, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, remove travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits you. It can also help people who prefer to use audio rather than being on camera, or who need sessions that are easier to schedule around work and family commitments.