Catherine Cross, BACP
4 years in practice
Catherine Cross is a counsellor who helps people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck.
License and registration
- BACP
- 382388 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
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About Catherine
Catherine Cross is a counsellor who helps people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She meets adults facing stress, depression, relationship strain, grief and parenting pressures. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel calmer and more in control of everyday life.
She has four years of experience and is an accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. Her background includes work for the NHS, a children’s centre supporting parents, and a independent practice offering short- and long-term support.
Background and approach
She also works with a charity focused on mental health in the construction industry. Catherine uses a blend of methods to suit the person in front of her. She draws on client-centred conversations to create a safe, respectful space.
She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help with unhelpful thinking and psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns from the past. She has a particular interest in neurodiversity and how it affects mental health. That has led to experience working in schools with parents of children with special educational needs and helping people navigate caring roles.
In sessions she aims to listen closely and help people find practical ways to manage day-to-day problems. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, addictions, trauma, eating and sleeping difficulties and relationship and family problems. For someone unsure whether to try counselling, she offers straightforward guidance about next steps.
The focus is on helping people make decisions, reduce guilt and regain a sense of purpose.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Catherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
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Online support
How Catherine’s approaches translate to online therapy
Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice and how people face difficult life moments. It helps when someone feels empty, stuck or is coping with big changes by focusing on personal values and what matters most.Client-centred therapy centres conversations on the person’s experience. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s pace to build trust and self-understanding. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers practical ways to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that feed anxiety, low mood or sleeping and eating problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will explore your goals, preferences and day-to-day needs and together you will decide which methods to try. This collaborative process means the plan can be adjusted as you learn what helps.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and live chat or text messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need more flexible check-ins. These options offer practical flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caring or other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What issues does Catherine help with?
She supports adults with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, relationship strain and a wide range of other problems listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her work is warm and down-to-earth, using client-centred listening alongside practical tools from cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches.
How much experience does she have?
She has four years of professional experience including roles with the NHS, a children’s centre, a independent practice and a charity supporting construction workers.
What credentials and location are noted?
She is an accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP, and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with people based in the United Kingdom.
What session formats does she use?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to meet online.
How are sessions paid for and how do I begin?
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