Catherine Garbutt, NCPS
Compassionate, practical support for parents and individuals
Book with Catherine- Years in practice
- 4
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Catherine
Catherine Garbutt is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and parenting concerns. She also supports people struggling with relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, sleep and eating problems, low self-esteem and life changes. Catherine works with those affected by trauma and abuse, and with people managing long-term health conditions or caregiver strain.
She adopts a collaborative, down-to-earth style. Catherine treats the person as the expert in their own story and offers practical tools to manage difficult thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping strategies, increasing confidence and helping people make decisions that fit their lives. Catherine uses a mix of widely-known approaches to suit different needs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people to accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. Attachment-Based work explores how early relationships shape current patterns. Her background includes four years of professional experience and a NCPS credential, which appears with her name as NCPS.
She has worked with people who are neurodivergent as well as neurotypical clients. Catherine accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. Therapy sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
She aims to be flexible with appointment times and is willing to arrange sessions outside her usual schedule by mutual agreement. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
What Catherine works with
Everything Catherine lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Catherine helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Catherine lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and to take committed action that matches their values. It can help with anxiety, depression and making purposeful life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and practising new ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress and improve everyday functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences influence current behaviour and emotions, and it can be useful when patterns of closeness or distance cause repeated problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will work alongside clients to choose which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses, with different tools introduced to match what a person wants to achieve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy around family life, work and busy schedules easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in, while live chat or messaging suit quick updates or reflective exchanges between appointments. These options give flexibility so people can use the format that fits them best.
Questions people ask about Catherine
What kind of problems does she help with?
Catherine supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and many parenting concerns. She also works with issues such as relationships, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats the client as the expert and focuses on practical coping strategies and decision-making.
What experience does she bring?
She has four years of professional experience and has worked with both neurodivergent and neurotypical people in a range of life and health situations.
What credentials and location are listed?
Her name appears with the credential NCPS and she is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to her availability.
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