Catherine Gallimore-Symonds

Hi, I am Catherine, and I offer you a safe space to be curious about yourself, your experiences and how they might be impacting you.

I am passionate about helping people who are looking to make changes and want to help themselves. I am qualified as a counsellor to do just that. I have the training, skills, empathy and compassion to support you through your healing – as you face the challenges of living a more authentic life, true to your own needs and values.

If you are experiencing fear, anxiety, overwhelming sadness or other forms of emotional distress and pain I can work alongside you and guide you past your blocks, barriers and sticking points.

Together, we can look at past events and patterns that are shaping your experience. We will look at what is limiting you emotionally and enable you to find your own lasting solutions, with my support. You have your own power and I will help you harness it.

I am a person-centred counsellor whose face to face practice is coaching informed. This means that we can structure our work together in a way that acknowledges goals and how to achieve them. We will explore how best to achieve the outcomes you set at the beginning of therapy.

I look forward to working with you as you forge a new pathway to the kind of future you want for yourself.

I offer a brief initial introductory telephone call free of charge. This offers an opportunity for you to outline your therapeutic needs, and allows me to share with you how I work, and whether you think this may help you before we agree to work together in counselling. Your weekly session time and day would be agreed during this call and session one would include the necessary, but informal completion of information gathered during a typical counselling assessment as well as the counselling agreement. Session one is charged at the usual session rate.