About Cathleen
Cathleen Brentnall is a counsellor who aims to help people untangle relationship strain, anxiety, grief and life transitions. She offers calm, practical conversations that focus on values and goals. Her style suits someone who wants straightforward help and a sense of direction.
Cathleen draws on a mix of talking and body-aware approaches, including somatic work. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centred listening and cognitive techniques to help people notice thoughts, feelings and how the body reacts.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to the way each person learns and makes decisions. She has a decade of counselling experience and a background in rehabilitation and mental health counselling. Cathleen trained in the United States and now practises in the United Kingdom.
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Cathleen can incorporate faith and prayer into sessions when a person wants that included. She works with people on relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, grief and loss, low mood, bipolar challenges, stress and ADHD-related struggles among other areas.
In sessions she will explore strengths, how someone gets and loses energy, and practical ways to organise life and make decisions. The focus is on small, achievable steps that match each person’s values and goals.
How Cathleen blends approaches for online work
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body, such as tension or breath changes, and use simple body-based exercises to reduce reactivity and increase awareness. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety and stress-related patterns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small action steps that align with what matters. It supports people who feel stuck by shifting attention and building committed habits. Client-centred therapy offers warm, non-judgemental listening where the person sets the pace and the counsellor reflects and supports personal insight. This approach suits people who want to be heard and to make sense of what matters to them.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with the person about needs, goals and preferences and decide together what to try. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access therapy from home, during work breaks or while travelling, and offer flexible ways to continue the work between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English