Kathy Sutherland
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About me
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or navigating a difficult life stage?
Whether you are facing a specific crisis, adjusting to a major life transition, or carrying a quiet, persistent sense that "something isn't quite right," you don't have to figure it out alone. I provide a calm, confidential, and supportive space where you can feel heard, safe, and understood exactly as you are. No concern is ever too small or insignificant.
I work with adults (18+) as individuals and couples. My approach is warm, conversational, and practical: combining depth therapy with actionable tools to help you create meaningful change.
Areas of Focus & Specialist Experience
While I support clients across a broad range of life challenges, I have specialist training and extensive experience in:
Bereavement & Loss (All Stages of Life): Supporting individuals and couples through general bereavement, complex grief, baby loss, miscarriage, and loss at any stage of life.
Workplace Challenges & Career Stress: Managing work-related stress, career crossroads, burn-out, professional transitions, and ADHD-related workplace challenges.
Fertility, Pregnancy & Perinatal Support: Navigating the emotional complexities of IVF, fertility struggles, pregnancy, birth issues/trauma, perinatal anxiety, and maternity life-stage changes.
Relationships, Communication & Co-Parenting: Working with individuals and couples on communication breakdowns, connection, relationship difficulties, blended family dynamics, and co-parenting challenges.
Alongside traditional counselling, I draw on a background in business and executive coaching, making my practice particularly well-suited for professionals looking for both deep emotional support and clear, practical direction.
How We Can Work Together
Formats: Individual therapy, couples counselling, perinatal/workplace coaching, and occasional one-off sessions.
Delivery: In-person (Cambridge), secure online, or hybrid options available.
Duration: Both short-term focused work and open-ended long-term therapy.
I also offer clinical supervision to counsellors and professionals in supportive roles.
Next Steps
Taking the first step can feel daunting, but reaching out is simple. Contact me today to ask any questions or to arrange an initial conversation to explore how we might work together.
🌐 Website: cambridgecounsellingpractice.co.uk
Training, qualifications & experience
My core training is in Individual Psychology and Adlerian Counselling—a practical, creative, and integrative therapeutic approach that is cooperative, supportive, and grounded in understanding how our early experiences shape our present lives. I take a common-sense approach using a range of techniques tailored to suit the needs of each individual client.
I trained for over four years, gaining the Advanced Certificate and Diploma in the Theory and Practice of Individual Psychology and Adlerian Counselling, awarded by the Institute for Individual Psychology. I am a member of both local and national Adlerian societies.
I am fully accredited and registered with the BACP and adhere to their Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
Online Training
I have run an established virtual practice for many years and work confidently both online and face-to-face.
To ensure I practise ethically and effectively online, I undertook substantive additional training in online therapy and digital clinical practice. My online work meets BACP requirements for safe and competent remote working.
Online therapy is not simply face-to-face therapy delivered through a screen; it requires specific awareness of boundaries, communication, risk management, and relational dynamics. I ensure that this aspect of my work is held to the same professional standard as in-person sessions.
Continuing Professional Development
Ongoing professional development is central to my work. In addition to my core training, I have completed further training in couples therapy, coaching, solution-focused work, bereavement, CBT, and a range of specialist areas including perinatal work and ADHD.
Regular supervision and continued learning ensure that my practice remains thoughtful, current, and ethically grounded.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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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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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Work related issues, retirement, baby loss, misscarrage, fertility, bereavement Maternity and returning to work, kife stages, change in direction crossroads
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The standard rate for an appointment is £80 (£100 for couples)
There are some reduced rates available if you are on a lower household income - please mention if you would like on of these rates at the time of your booking.
Concessions are sometimes available for trainees
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