Katherine Smalldon, BACP
9 years in practice
Katherine Smalldon is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression and relationship or intimacy difficulties.
License and registration
- BACP
- 283710 · expires December 2026
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Katherine
Katherine Smalldon is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression and relationship or intimacy difficulties. She supports those coping with grief, trauma, addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and life changes. Katherine also assists people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, career questions and challenges around self-esteem.
She works at a pace the client chooses and aims to make starting therapy straightforward and calm. Katherine asks about hopes, fears and expectations in the first meeting so therapy can focus on what matters most.
Background and approach
She welcomes questions and feedback as the work continues. Katherine brings nine years of counselling experience to her practice. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is noted on her professional profile.
Her background is integrative, drawing on several approaches to suit different needs. In sessions she uses practical conversation and reflection to identify patterns and options. She helps people consider how past relationships and current choices shape feelings and behaviour.
Where helpful, she works on small, manageable steps to change routines or cope better day to day. Katherine aims to create an impartial space where clients can speak openly and be listened to. She explains what to expect in early sessions and supports people to shape therapy around their goals.
If someone chooses to try a first session, she offers a clear starting point for deciding whether to continue.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Katherine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Katherine names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How Katherine’s approaches work online
Existential therapy helps people consider meaning, choice and responsibility in their lives. It supports those facing big decisions, loss, or a sense of being stuck by inviting reflection on values and what matters most.Attachment-based work looks at how early and close relationships shape current patterns. It can help with intimacy problems, abandonment fears, communication difficulties and building more supported ways of relating.
Client-centred therapy focuses on a warm, non-directive conversation where the client leads. It helps people feel heard, clarify their goals and gain confidence to make changes at their own pace.
Choosing the right way of working is part of therapy itself. Katherine will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which approach or combination feels best. This is a collaborative process and can be revisited as things change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make attendance flexible. Video is useful for full conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Katherine help with?
She supports people with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy worries, grief, trauma, addictions, parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, and vocational concerns among others.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is conversational and paced to the client. Katherine invites clients to set goals, gives space to reflect on patterns, and works on practical steps when helpful.
What is her professional background?
Katherine has nine years of counselling experience and follows an integrative way of working that draws on several psychological approaches.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and she is available to work with international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
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