Catherine Garbutt, NCPS
Catherine Garbutt helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and life changes.
About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and life changes. She supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, addiction and issues such as ADHD and bipolar. Catherine works with people on career worries, low self-esteem, anger and coping with serious illness or caregiving pressures.
Catherine takes a straightforward, collaborative approach in sessions. She sees clients as the experts in their own lives and offers practical tools to manage thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
Background and approach
Therapy is a joint effort and she aims to help people make decisions that last beyond the therapy room. She uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs. That can involve exploring unhelpful thinking patterns, building emotion regulation skills, and looking at attachment and values to guide change.
Sessions focus on clear, doable strategies rather than jargon or lengthy theory. Catherine holds NCPS as a credential and brings four years of professional experience in counselling work. She has worked with people who are neurodivergent as well as neurotypical, and with a wide range of life and health difficulties.
Her practice is based in the United Kingdom and she accepts international clients. Appointments are offered in several formats and she can be flexible about timings by mutual arrangement. She encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready and to plan realistic goals for gradual change.
Clients can expect calm, patient support alongside practical exercises that aim to build coping, resilience and greater confidence over time.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NCPS | NCS22-01574 | May 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Catherine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments to reduce distress and change behaviour. It often helps with anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy, trust and communication issues.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Catherine will discuss what matters to you, try different ways of working and agree a plan together. The aim is to match methods to your goals and preferences through an ongoing conversation rather than a single fixed model.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you meet. Video calls let you use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need brief, frequent support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel.
Frequently asked
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Catherine works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, career worries, bipolar and ADHD.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a collaborative, straightforward style that treats the client as the expert in their life and focuses on practical tools to manage thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has four years of professional counselling experience and has worked with both neurodivergent and neurotypical people across a wide range of issues.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds NCPS as a listed credential.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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