Catherine Pinder , BACP

Catherine Pinder is a BACP-registered humanistic and integrative counsellor who focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and identity-related concerns. She combines person-centred values with a flexible integrative framework to create a therapeutic space that honours each person's experience and pace. Her BACP registration refers to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom.

She has completed specialist training in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBTQ+ issues, counselling children and young people, therapeutic work with autistic clients, and supporting those facing life-limiting illnesses. Catherine's background also includes roles in mentoring and youth engagement, holding a Level 3 Youth Work Award and a Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification, which inform her approach to working with young people and families.

Her previous work as a senior investigator exposed her to high-pressure safeguarding situations and a range of trauma-related issues, shaping a trauma-informed perspective that values safety, respect, and practical support. With five years of professional therapeutic practice, she integrates sensitivity and practical insight to tailor sessions around the needs of each person, whether they are navigating loss, managing anxiety, exploring identity, or seeking personal growth.

Humanistic and Integrative Approaches for Online Support

Catherine Pinder works from a humanistic foundation, which focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people reconnect with their own values and strengths. This approach supports issues like grief, depression, identity exploration, and building emotional resilience. She also uses an integrative approach, blending techniques from different evidence-based therapies to match the work to each person's needs - useful for anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and everyday coping skills. Additionally, a trauma-informed perspective guides her work with people affected by past harm or exploitation, emphasising sensitivity to triggers and pacing the process to the client's readiness.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Catherine collaborates with each person to identify what feels most helpful, adapting methods over time based on goals, preferences, and progress so the therapy remains responsive and practical.

Online sessions - by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging - can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access therapists from different locations. Those options offer flexibility in scheduling and communication style, allowing people to choose the format that best supports their comfort and consistency in engaging with therapy.