Kate Anderson

Kate Anderson is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. She works with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or who sense something in their life needs to change. Her manner is calm and approachable, offering a space to talk things through at a comfortable pace.

She draws on a range of counselling approaches and adapts them to fit each person. A lot of the work looks at how past relationships and family roles shape current feelings and reactions. That can help someone understand why they find it hard to ask for support or to set boundaries.

Alongside that exploration, she helps people notice how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. Mindfulness and practical exercises are used to build clearer responses, steadier moods and more choice in difficult moments. This work uses ideas from cognitive behavioural methods and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Therapy also covers values, sense of purpose and how personality and attachment patterns affect relationships. Conversations might include assertiveness, boundary setting and recovering a stronger sense of self. The aim is to help people make changes that matter in day-to-day life.

Kate has five years of clinical experience and holds BACP, which is listed as her professional credential. She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. If you want to find out more she guides people through an initial matching process to set up a first session.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Kate works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as part of her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them, and then taking actions that reflect what matters to you. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change those patterns in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That choice is revisited as therapy progresses to make sure the approach fits the goals and what feels most helpful.

If you are considering online therapy, check the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow short check-ins when a longer in-person visit would be difficult. Some approaches translate well to remote sessions because they use conversation, reflective exercises and simple home practices that can be done between meetings.