Kathryn Taylor, BACP

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters to the individual. The counsellor helps people find their own solutions by reflecting feelings and clarifying goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and work with core emotions in order to improve how they relate to themselves and others, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kathryn will discuss options and adapt methods based on the person’s needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tried, reviewed and adjusted together to find what helps most.

Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments and to keep momentum between meetings.