- Years in practice
- 24
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Kate
Kate Mollison is a UK-based counsellor with 24 years of professional experience. She brings a practical, flexible approach to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and major life changes. Her background includes work in health services, employee assistance programmes and independent practice.
She adapts the work to each person rather than using one fixed method. That means building a trusting relationship, spotting unhelpful patterns, and trying small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breathing and mindfulness exercises to help with emotional regulation. Kate uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which gives clear tools and a shared language to tackle difficult thoughts and behaviours. She also draws on client-centred principles to create an accepting, non-judgemental space.
Solution-focused ideas help set short-term goals and practical steps. Much of her practice has involved anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and coping with illness. She also supports people facing parenting strain, relationship concerns, addiction and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include body image, attachment issues, ADHD and challenges that arise around ageing and caregiving. Her work is informed by long experience across public and personal settings in the UK and abroad. Kate keeps up-to-date through reading, courses and professional development.
She aims to help people find clearer ways to cope and to notice small shifts that make daily life easier. Sessions are offered in English from the United Kingdom and follow an individualised, collaborative process. Her style is straightforward, empathetic and grounded in practical techniques.
What Kate works with
Everything Kate lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Kate helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kate lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Kate’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on building a respectful, accepting relationship. Online sessions use that same way of listening and reflecting, helping people feel heard even when they are not in the same room.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) gives straightforward tools for tackling anxious or low moods. In online sessions CBT often includes shared worksheets, short behavioural experiments and practical homework to do between appointments.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to regulate stress and notice thoughts without judgement. These techniques can be practised during a video call or reinforced via messaging between sessions for daily use.
Choosing the best approach is a shared task. The therapist will discuss goals, look at what has helped before and adapt the methods to the individual’s needs and preferences. This collaborative process aims to find what fits, rather than imposing a single route.
Online formats offer flexibility and easier access. Video calls allow visual contact for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging suit quick reflections, brief exercises or people who find typed communication easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, childcare and busy lives.
Questions people ask about Kate
What issues does Kate commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem and grief. Other areas include parenting strain, addictions, relationship concerns and career difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is warm and practical. Sessions mix listening, reflection and simple exercises such as breathing or thought‑record techniques.
How much experience does she have?
She has 24 years of professional counselling experience across NHS settings, employee assistance programmes and independent practice.
What qualifications and location are listed?
She is registered with the BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to people in the United Kingdom.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and starting therapy work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time.
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