Catherine Pinder, BACP

Catherine Pinder offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or depression. She helps carers and others who are managing complex emotions, identity questions, neurodiversity and long-term health or caring responsibilities. Her manner is gentle and straightforward, aimed at making each session useful and manageable.

Catherine works from a humanistic, integrative perspective and is a BACP member. She aims to create a space where someone feels heard and understood before moving on to practical steps. Conversations focus on what matters now and what can be done next, with attention to emotional safety and pacing.

Her background includes mentoring, youth work and frontline safeguarding roles. Those roles gave experience supporting people after trauma and alongside identity challenges. That practical experience feeds into a calm, observant style in sessions.

She has completed specialist training in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBTQ+ work, counselling children and young people, working therapeutically with autistic clients, and life-limiting illnesses. Catherine draws on this experience to respond to loss, identity questions and complex stressors in everyday language and concrete steps.

Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs, whether someone wants short-term help with a specific problem or longer-term support to build coping strategies. She encourages small, steady changes and works at a pace that suits the individual.

If you are a carer or someone carrying heavy responsibilities, Catherine aims to help you find clearer ways to cope, rest and make decisions that feel right for you.

How therapeutic approaches shape online support

Many of Catherine's interventions come from humanistic and integrative ways of working. Humanistic approaches focus on hearing a person's experience and building a trusting relationship so change can happen. This helps with low mood, grief and feelings of isolation by prioritising understanding and emotional connection.

Integrative practice blends different evidence-based techniques to suit the individual. That might mean combining reflective conversation with practical coping strategies for anxiety, or adapting ways of working when supporting someone with ADHD or neurodiverse traits. The aim is to match methods to a person’s goals rather than use a single fixed method.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Catherine works collaboratively to identify what feels most helpful, checks in regularly, and adjusts methods as progress and priorities evolve. Clients help shape goals and the steps taken to meet them.

Practical benefits of online therapy include being able to fit sessions around work, caring duties and medical appointments. Online work can shorten travel time, allow quieter check-ins during a busy day, or remove the need to be on camera for the whole session depending on what is agreed. The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking to make sure they suit your needs.