Katherine Foster
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About me
I am an experienced counsellor based in the Southside of Glasgow, offering Person-Centred and Emotion-Focused counselling and therapy. I provide a warm, safe and empathic space where we can work collaboratively with whatever difficulties you may be experiencing.
I work with integrity and compassion to support you to express, explore and begin to process your experiences and emotions, helping you engage more fully with life. I am open to whatever you bring to counselling, including feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin.
What might bring you to counselling?
People come to counselling for many different reasons. You might be seeking support with:
- Managing difficult, recurring or confusing emotions such as anxiety, low mood, anger, or feeling overwhelmed
- Coming to terms with traumatic experiences, including abuse or domestic violence
- Navigating life transitions such as bereavement, relationship difficulties, separation or work-related stress
- Coping with mental or physical health difficulties, including depression, panic attacks, infertility or chronic pain
- Exploring identity, self-esteem, shame, fear, or a critical inner voice
Noticing painful or repeating patterns in behaviour or relationships - Wanting dedicated time to reflect and focus on personal development
How counselling can help
How Counselling Can Help
Counselling offers a space to recognise and explore your values, beliefs, and emotional experiences without judgement. It can support you to articulate your thoughts and feelings, sometimes for the first time, and to develop greater self-awareness and self-compassion.
Through the therapeutic relationship, counselling can help strengthen your sense of self, deepen your understanding of relationships, and open possibilities for care, healing and change.
How I work
Starting therapy can feel daunting, so my priority is helping you feel at ease. In early sessions, I invite you to share what has brought you to counselling and we take time to understand what feels most important for you.
I believe it is important that you understand the therapeutic process and feel actively involved, so I regularly invite feedback during sessions and through six-weekly reviews. We will work together to decide the focus and pace of the work, and you remain in control of what you choose to explore.
I offer both short-term counselling (a fixed number of sessions) and longer-term, in-depth therapeutic work, depending on what feels most supportive for you. My emphasis is on working with underlying causes of distress, while offering emotional support to help you move forward.
I am open to working with people from a wide range of backgrounds and lived experiences, including those who identify as neurodivergent or as part of the LGBTQ+ community. I aim to offer a respectful, curious, and affirming space, remaining attentive to how identity, difference, and social context may shape emotional experience and relationships.
Experience
Alongside my clinical work in private practice, I am an accredited tutor at Strathclyde University, teaching COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills. I also develop and deliver professional training, including collaborative work exploring body-oriented and somatic approaches within therapeutic practice. This informs my attention to embodied experience, emotional process, and nervous system awareness in the therapy room.
I have previously worked as a counsellor with students at Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University, and with Quarriers, where I spent over six years establishing a counselling service for young people affected by, or at risk of, sexual exploitation.
I have also worked in services supporting post-natal depression and perinatal mental health, within GP practices, and in generic counselling services. I bring experience of working with people of different ages and at varied stages of life.
Before training as a counsellor, I worked and volunteered in helping roles since 1998, including homelessness services, community arts projects, and supporting young carers. These experiences, alongside my own personal therapy, affirmed my belief in the transformative power of being seen, heard, and understood, something I remain deeply passionate about.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like further information about my counselling practice.
Warmly,
Katherine
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Counselling Supervision: Physis Scotland
- Emotion Focussed Therapy Level 1 & 2: University of Strathclyde
- Grief, Bereavement and Loss: Crisis, Erskine
- Post Graduate Diploma Counselling and Psychotherapy: University of Strathclyde
- Further Steps in Counselling Skills: University of Strathclyde
- SVQ Health and Social Care: GCVS
- Certificate in Counselling Skills: University of Strathclyde
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
It is important that you feel comfortable working with me and that we are the right ‘fit’, I place a great deal of emphasis on ‘relationship’ as this is the essence of my work so I offer an initial 30 minute session for free.
From then on my fees are £60 per session. I reserve a number of appointments which I can offer at a concession, agreed in advance of starting work together.
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