Katherine Purdy, BACP

Katherine Purdy is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She welcomes people who are feeling anxious, grieving, lonely or overwhelmed and offers a calm, non-judgemental presence. Katherine draws on past experience in emergency healthcare to shape a practical, empathetic way of working.

She listens carefully and gives time to understand what is happening for each person. Katherine believes people can change how they feel about past events and build more hopeful ways of living. In sessions she invites honest talk about worries, fears and difficult thoughts so those things become easier to bear.

Her approach blends ideas from attachment work, client-centred therapy and mindfulness. This means Katherine pays attention to how early relationships shape patterns now, meets people with acceptance, and uses simple awareness exercises to reduce distress. Narrative and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she helps people make sense of repeated patterns.

Katherine supports people facing stress, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, low self-esteem, grief, addictions and eating concerns. She also works with panic, obsessive behaviours, codependency and feelings of emptiness or shame. Her aim is to help people develop clearer boundaries, more self-compassion and practical coping skills.

With three years of counselling experience and a background as a paramedic, Katherine brings steadiness and realism to sessions. She invites clients to take the first step and talk about what matters most to them.

How Katherine blends attachment, mindfulness and narrative work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice repeating relationship habits and try new ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and accepted. In this approach the therapist follows the person's lead and offers empathic responses to help them find their own solutions. Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention practices to reduce anxiety and manage strong emotions, which can be used between sessions to steady the day.

Katherine treats choosing an approach as a joint process. She will talk with each person about their concerns, goals and preferences and then agree on methods to try together. That collaborative conversation continues as progress is reviewed and changes are made if needed.

Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions around everyday life and reducing travel time. Online therapy can make it easier to schedule shorter check-ins or regular weekly sessions when needed. The biography does not specify which online formats are offered, so confirm current session options before booking. Overall this way of working aims to bring therapeutic tools into daily routines and support steady change over time.