About me
When life feels overwhelming, confusing, or quietly painful, reaching out for support can be the hardest step. Are you feeling anxious, exhausted from holding everything together, grieving someone or something you’ve lost, or wondering why life suddenly feels so much harder that it used to? You don’t have to figure it out on your own.
I’m Kate from Blue Waves Counselling in Sowton, Exeter, offering trauma-informed counselling for adults who are navigating bereavement, grief, loss, and life transitions. I provide a warm, compassionate, and non-judgemental space where you can explore what’s happening for you at your own pace — and begin to feel steadier, clearer, and more like yourself again.
Grief isn’t only about death.
I also support people experiencing living losses such as estrangement, caring for others, changes in identity, grieving linked to chronic illness, adult-diagnosed ADHD, menopause, infertility, coercive control or abuse, divorce, empty nest syndrome, or retirement. These experiences can leave you feeling lonely, stuck, or unsure of who you are now.
I believe grief has two parts: the loss itself and rebuilding life afterwards. I walk alongside you as we face your loss together and begin the process of rebuilding.
You don’t have to wait until you’re at breaking point to come to counselling.
Many of the people I work with are still going to work, caring for others and getting through each day. From the outside, they seem to be coping. Inside, they’re exhausted from carrying so much on their own.
For other people who are facing life-changing health issues, counselling can be the place to grieve your former self. A place to explore previous trauma and how that may impact you now. Maybe your health issues aren't the concern, but you want a counsellor who has thought about accessibility but can see past your disability and see the real you.
How Counselling Can Help?
Counselling can support personal growth, improve relationships, and create a deeper connection to yourself, helping you build a more fulfilling and balanced life. Counselling offers a space where you no longer have to carry it alone.
Together we’ll make sense of what’s happened, rebuild your sense of self and help life feel manageable again. A future that feels safer, calmer, and more hopeful.
What Clients Often Share.
Clients often describe their counselling sessions as life-changing. They say that they feel seen, heard, understood, and lighter, with a deeper awareness of who they are and what they need moving forward.
Many clients find that anxiety eases, brain fog lifts, and they feel more confident, calmer, more grounded, and more able to cope.
Does life feel like an uphill struggle, but you’re not sure why? Do you feel like you’re more sensitive than others? Are you feeling anxious, low in confidence, or worried about what lies ahead? Is a good night's sleep a thing of the past? Counselling can help you explore these feelings and help you see the path forward more clearly.
Our work together will always be tailored to your individual needs. Whether you’re seeking help for a specific issue or more general emotional support, my role is to help you understand what you’re going through and to support you in creating meaningful, lasting change.
I understand how difficult it can be to take that first step and ask for help. Counselling offers you the opportunity to slow things down, make sense of your thoughts and feelings, and develop a clearer understanding of yourself.
I support clients across Exeter and the surrounding areas, as well as those choosing online or e-mail counselling.
Life Experience.
Before training as a counsellor, I spent 25 years working in education in East Devon. I am good at communicating with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Rewind Therapy in Exeter
I also offer Rewind Therapy in Exeter, which is a gentle, evidence-based approach that helps reduce or remove the emotional intensity attached to traumatic memories. It can be effective for PTSD and trauma, without requiring you to revisit distressing experiences repeatedly.
Counselling Rooms in Exeter & Online Sessions.
If you choose in-person counselling in Sowton, Exeter, I work from beautiful, purpose-built therapy rooms designed to help you feel comfortable and at ease. There is free off-road parking, wheelchair-accessible parking, a ramp for the small stairs, and the counselling room itself is wheelchair accessible, although the toilet is only suitable for ambulatory wheelchair users (please let me know at the time of booking). Complimentary hot/cold drinks and snacks are available to settle you in whilst you wait.
I also offer online counselling, and can sometimes offer a flexible weekly schedule. This can be particularly helpful for shift workers and people with fluctuating health. E-mail counselling is also available for anyone who cannot find the words in the moment or has speech, communication and language needs and prefers to write down their feelings.
Take the Next Step.
If you’re ready to begin counselling in Exeter online or by email, I’d love to hear from you.
Email to book your introductory phone call session, and we can take the next step together.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling (level 5)
- Rewind Therapy
- MSc in Psychology
- Certificate in counselling
- TA101
- Diploma in CBT
- I volunteered for Rethink Mental Illness (working with people bereaved by suicide)
- Margaret Jackson Centre (Exeter, Devon).
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Rewind Therapy (for PTSD, and trauma)
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute call to see if we're a good fit.
Sessions are either online or in-person in Sowton, Exeter (EX1 3RU), for £65 for 50 minutes.
I have a limited number of concessional spaces for people with chronic health conditions that affect their ability to earn and trainee counsellors. Please apply for availability.
If working in-person, you will have a set time and day each week. If working online, I can offer varied availability, especially suitable for shift workers, Teachers, and those with chronic health issues.
When I work
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Further information
I help people with anxiety, depression, bereavement, bereavement due to suicide, pet bereavement, miscarriages/IVF. People dealing with a loss of identity due to chronic health illness (Lupus, RA, fibro etc), adult-diagnosed ADHD, self-esteem/confidence, retirement, living loss (e.g. children leaving home/estrangement), relationship issues, pre-trial therapy, and any other losses that you are dealing with.
I offer online or in-person sessions in Sowton, Exeter which is a 3-minute drive from J29 off the M5, and a 2-minute walk from the park and ride.
