Catherine Pinder, BACP

Catherine Pinder offers a compassionate, listening-focused approach that aims to help people feel heard, understood, and supported while they work through loss, identity concerns, anxiety, and life transitions. She is BACP-registered - a membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and practices from a humanistic and integrative perspective, shaping sessions to each person’s needs and preferences.

She has completed specialist training in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBTQ+ matters, counselling children and young people, working therapeutically with autistic clients, and supporting people with life-limiting illnesses. Her background includes mentoring and teaching both adults and children, bringing skills that help clients build confidence, emotional resilience, and practical coping strategies.

Prior professional roles include service as a senior investigator focused on safeguarding and supporting victims of exploitation and trauma, and work as a youth engagement worker. She holds a Level 3 Youth Work Award and a Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification, which inform her experience with young people facing identity struggles and crisis. Catherine combines sensitivity, practical insight, and a trauma-informed outlook to tailor therapy around what matters most for each person’s journey.

Therapy with Catherine is offered without pressure or judgment, and she invites people ready to take a next step to reach out and explore how she can walk alongside them.

Humanistic and Integrative Approaches for Online Therapy

Within her practice Catherine draws on humanistic therapy, which focuses on understanding each person’s experience and fostering self-awareness, personal growth, and emotional acceptance. This approach is often helpful for people navigating grief, identity questions, and depression because it centers the person rather than labels or diagnoses.

She also uses an integrative approach, blending techniques from different evidence-based methods to match the needs of the individual. That flexibility means practical tools can be combined with reflective work to address anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, or relationship and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Catherine works collaboratively with clients to identify what fits best based on their goals, preferences, and circumstances. Together they explore options and adapt the work as needs evolve.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to access regular support from licensed professionals. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and allow clients to choose the way of communicating that feels most comfortable while pursuing consistent therapeutic progress.