Hayden Stothard
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About me
I am a Cognitive Analytic Therapist (CAT Therapist), practicing a specific form of time-limited psychotherapy over 16 or 24 weekly sessions.
I help individuals stuck in repeating relational and behavioural patterns, whether related to work, friendships, family, or romance. My role is to assist you in noticing these patterns and initiating changes in your life.
What makes Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) different?
CAT focuses on exploring the root cause of the problem, rather than just the symptoms and teaching coping techniques.
Over 4-6 months, we explore your history and create a therapy map to identify relational patterns, enhancing awareness and goal-setting that you can use in between your sessions.
In CAT, I actively engage by asking questions, sharing my thoughts, and expressing feelings. We focus on building a real, trusting relationship to collaboratively explore your life's challenges and recurring patterns.
We also use specific CAT tools. Within the first 6 weeks, I will write and read a letter to you, detailing your history and therapy goals. At the end of therapy, I will read a final goodbye letter summarising our achievements and future areas to work on. These are all tools that you can then refer back to in the future once therapy is finished.
New for 2024 **
You will receive a free copy of "My Cognitive Analytic Therapy Diary" to accompany you during your therapy. ( You can read more about it at www.cato.training/mycatdiary )
Why choose time-limited therapy?
By limiting session numbers, it maintains the momentum of therapy, preventing procrastination, and encourages you to try new relational approaches while in therapy, rather than after.
CAT also includes 1 or 2 follow-up sessions, typically a month after the final session, allowing for reflection, clarification, and future planning.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have worked in healthcare since 2006, initially training as a Learning Disability Nurse. In 2012, I also registered as a Mental Health Nurse, and primarily worked in the community with children, families, and adults in the NHS.
From 2016 to 2019, I trained as a Cognitive Analytic Therapist in South London and hold full accreditation from the UK Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) and in addition, I am now a qualified clinical supervisor of others CAT therapists.
You can read my reviews provided anonymously by previous clients at https://www.iwantgreatcare.org/nurses/mr-hayden-stothard
Member organisations
The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) is a registered charity. They welcome members of the public, health professionals, ACAT accredited professionals, and anyone interested in finding out more about CAT. They list CAT practitioners.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is an integrative model, so it may be helpful to incorporate some techniques from other therapies in our work together.
While I don't offer these as standalone therapies, I am additionally qualified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and I'm familiar with many Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£72.00 - £90.00
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My ethos is to charge fairly and in doing so, to provide quality therapy over quantity. I achieve this by intentionally limiting the number of clients that I will work with at one time, to make sure that I can hold your story in my mind fully.
I will be available to assess suitability prior to these dates, however future regular therapy slots will be the following:
- Tuesday AM slots from June 2025.
When I work
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Further information
Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a trans-diagnostic therapy, which means it can effectively be used with any presentation, so this list is not exhaustive, but I do have some particular areas of clinical interest in which I apply CAT;
- Autism
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Experience of childhood trauma
- Narcissism
- Parents/Carers
- Professional development and entrepreneurism via a Professional Reformulation (https://www.cato.training/post/understanding-your-personal-barriers-to-navigating-workplace-challenges-overcoming-bullies-moving)
I am appointed as the Co-Vice Chair for the Board of Trustees at the Association for Cognitive Analytic therapy, our governing body in the UK.
I jointly authored "My Cognitive Analytic Therapy Diary: Accompanying you on your therapy journey" (available on The Great British Bookshop and Amazon).
After years of experience working with individuals in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), we noticed that clients often ask similar questions about what they can expect and how to get the most from their therapy.
You can read more about the diary at www.cato.training/mycatdiary
