Catherine Smith, NCPS

Catherine Smith is a United Kingdom-based therapist with 15 years of professional experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, loss, motivation, self-esteem, confidence, and depression. She holds the NCPS credential - a professional accreditation that indicates training and qualifications in counselling and psychotherapy - and brings a strengths-focused, compassionate approach to her work.

Catherine views each person as the expert of their own story and builds on existing strengths to support change. She emphasizes the courage required to seek a more fulfilling and happier life and offers support and empowerment as clients take their first steps toward meaningful goals. Her practice also addresses intimacy-related concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, sleeping difficulties, and coping with life transitions, alongside related areas such as body image, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and social anxiety.

Using hypnotherapy-informed techniques within a collaborative therapeutic relationship, Catherine aims to create a space where clients can explore challenges, develop new coping strategies, and work toward greater self-love, purpose, and emotional resilience.

Hypnotherapy-informed care and flexible online support

Hypnotherapy is used by Catherine to access relaxed states of focus where clients can explore thoughts, patterns, and responses that contribute to stress, anxiety, sleep problems, or unhelpful habits. This approach often helps people tap into their own resources and learn new ways of responding to difficult emotions and behaviours.

Alongside hypnotherapy-informed work, Catherine offers strengths-based, supportive therapeutic engagement that centers the client's perspective and goals. This practical, collaborative style is aimed at helping clients build confidence, improve relationships, and cope with grief, loss, and life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Catherine works together with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting the plan over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for people juggling busy schedules, varied time zones, or mobility limitations. These formats make it easier to access licensed professionals from different locations and to continue therapy in a way that fits daily life.