Catherine Pinder, BACP

Catherine Pinder is a BACP counsellor with five years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD and LGBT issues. She also supports concerns such as blended family issues, attachment and adoption matters, chronic illness, and communication problems.

Catherine uses a humanistic and integrative approach that draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps as well as discussion. She aims to help people make sense of difficult feelings and to build everyday coping skills.

Her background includes long experience in mentoring, teaching and youth work. She has a Level 3 Youth Work Award and Youth Mental Health First Aid qualification. Those roles involved supporting young people through identity challenges and crisis situations, and helped shape her practical style.

She has also worked as a senior investigator on safeguarding and trauma-related cases. That role exposed her to high-pressure situations and to the realities of exploitation and trauma. It informs her awareness of trauma responses and the need to work at a manageable pace.

Catherine has completed specialist training in grief, trauma, suicidality, LGBTQ+ issues, counselling children and young people, therapeutic work with autistic clients, and life-limiting illness. She brings that range of experience to sessions while focusing on what a single person needs during times of change.

People in stepfamily or blended household situations often face loyalty tensions, shifting routines and co-parenting challenges. Catherine talks through those practical issues, helps identify manageable next steps and supports clearer communication between partners and with former partners where relevant.