Catherine Pinder, BACP

Catherine Pinder offers a compassionate, person-centred approach that aims to help people feel truly heard and supported as they work through loss, identity questions, trauma, and everyday stress. She is BACP-registered - meaning she adheres to professional standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and practices from a humanistic and integrative perspective, shaping each session around the needs of the individual.

Her training includes specialist work in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBTQ+ issues, counselling children and young people, supporting autistic clients, and life-limiting illness. Those areas inform a trauma-aware style that balances empathy with practical strategies, suitable for people facing anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and relationship or identity concerns.

Catherine’s background spans mentoring, advocacy, teaching, frontline safeguarding as a senior investigator, and youth engagement work. She holds a Level 3 Youth Work Award and a Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification, experiences that contribute to a strengths-based way of working with both young people and adults. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can explore emotions, develop resilience, and work toward personal goals at their own pace.

Therapy with Catherine is collaborative and tailored - she supports clients through whatever stage they are at, without pressure or expectation, and will walk alongside them as they take each next step.

Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy helps

Catherine works from humanistic and integrative foundations. Humanistic therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathetic relationship and helping people connect with their own values and strengths - it is useful for clients navigating grief, self-worth, identity, and life transitions. Integrative practice means she blends methods from different evidence-based techniques to suit each person - for example combining emotional processing with practical coping strategies to address anxiety, depression, ADHD, or relationship difficulties. She also brings a trauma-aware perspective that recognises how past experiences shape current responses and supports gradual, stabilising work for those recovering from trauma or exploitation.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine collaborates with clients to identify what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods as therapy progresses to ensure the best fit.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call or phone enable face-to-face conversation without travel, while live chat and text-based messaging provide more immediate or lower-intensity options for those who prefer them. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or location and help people access consistent support from a registered professional regardless of where they are.