Katherine Smalldon, BACP

Katherine Smalldon is a BACP counsellor with nine years of experience. She helps people who feel stuck, anxious, depressed or overwhelmed by life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma, addiction and parenting strains.

She works at a pace that suits each person and starts by asking about hopes, fears and expectations. Katherine aims to make first sessions straightforward so people can say what they want from therapy and suggest boundaries or preferences. She welcomes questions and feedback as therapy progresses.

Katherine combines several approaches to match the individual. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She uses client-centred listening to keep sessions person-focused and to follow what feels most important to the client.

She also uses cognitive behavioural tools to identify unhelpful thinking and to try small practical changes between sessions. Narrative and existential perspectives are included when it helps people make sense of their story or to reflect on meaning and choice.

People who have experienced abandonment, adoption or foster care concerns, autism, attachment issues or coping with chronic illness may find her approach relevant. She also works with issues such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and ADHD. Katherine accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work pays attention to how earlier relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions. Online conversations can help identify repeated patterns and build new ways of relating to oneself and others. Client-centred therapy focuses on attentive listening and following what matters most to the person. In remote sessions this means the counsellor reflects back what she hears and supports clients to set the pace and agenda for each meeting.

Cognitive behavioural techniques are about noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying small, practical changes. These tools translate well to online work because they can include short between-session tasks and real-time practice during meetings. Katherine will discuss which tools might suit the issue you bring and adapt them to your situation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. She will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of ways of working fits best, taking account of goals and preferences. This is an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time decision.

Please confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, such as fitting a shorter check-in during a work break or avoiding travel time, and it allows sessions to use methods that suit quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth when needed.