About me
Hello, I’m Kate, a warm and experienced counsellor - thank you for your interest in my profile. I know looking for a therapist is a big step, so I'd love to explore working with you.
Life can ask a lot of us. Along the way, we’ll second-guess ourselves, struggle through change, have our confidence knocked, and carry invisible loads. In the mix there’s love, loss, and the moments that really matter.
Being human can be tangled work - and our changing world doesn’t make it easy. Therapy gives us space to think and room to breathe. A place to make sense of the mess and the meaning.
When it comes down to it, I just love having meaningful conversations about what matters to people. You can expect warmth, reflectiveness, and curiosity from me in our sessions.
When we work together, I’ll listen attentively, question gently, and offer challenge when it's helpful. Together, we’ll find new ways to explore what's been going on for you.
How counselling can help
Perhaps low mood, worry, or stress is feeling overwhelming. Maybe you keep finding yourself having the same problems in relationships. You might want to make a change, but don’t know where to start. Or perhaps you're just finding it hard to be hopeful.
Counselling gives you a confidential space to explore whatever has been on your mind, without judgment, with someone who's on your side. Counselling is a process of discovering that it's possible for things to be different for you, and that there are choices open to you that you may not have realised.
Over the years, I’ve worked with people facing all kinds of challenges, including anxiety, low mood, depression, stress, lack of motivation, loss, perfectionism, overwhelm, relationship difficulties, grief, climate anxiety, and loud inner critics.
My counselling approach
Although I draw on a number of different approaches to suit each person I work with, my core training is in transactional analysis (TA).
TA helps us to explore the ways that our life experiences and childhood still shape the decisions we make (and the limitations we put on ourselves). Seeing these things clearly gives us the opportunity to make different choices.
In our sessions, I might also suggest some creative ways to tune into how you're feeling. This could be using picture cards, interesting objects, or a sand tray - though it’s completely up to you what you try.
I'll also regularly check in with you to see how you feel the therapy is going, so we can refocus or change things up if needed.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (2020) - Northern Guild of Psychotherapy and Counselling.
- Registered member of BACP.
- Registered with Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
- Member of a continuous professional development (CPD) group of professional colleagues, meeting monthly.
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
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Initial consultation (50 mins): £30
Therapy session (50 mins): £60
When I work
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Further information
On Mondays I use a lovely therapy room in Whitley Bay, on the same street as the Metro station. There's also free parking on the neighbouring streets.
