Catherine Noy, ACA

Catherine Noy is an ACA counsellor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on relationships, family concerns and personal wellbeing. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space for people to talk through what matters to them.

Catherine uses a practical, person-centred style. Sessions focus on the issues you bring, such as parenting, intimacy, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief or mood challenges. She works to build confidence and motivation while helping clients manage life changes and difficult emotions.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how patterns in relationships affect feelings and behaviour. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try strategies that change responses. The Gottman Method and narrative ideas also inform work on communication and relationship repair.

Catherine tailors conversation and plans to each person. That might mean short-term goal work on sleep, eating or coping skills, or a longer focus on family of origin issues, caregiver stress or blended family dynamics. She also supports people facing cancer, ageing and fatherhood challenges.

She aims to be practical and compassionate in sessions. The first meeting typically clarifies goals and what a few sessions might look like. Catherine encourages small steps that fit into everyday life and can adjust pace as needed.

How Catherine's approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions using this approach look at recurring patterns between people and help build different ways of relating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and reshaping emotional responses in relationships, which can help with intimacy and communication issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and practises small experiments to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Catherine will discuss goals and preferences with each person and decide together which methods fit best. That collaborative planning means sessions can shift between exploring relationships, practising new communication skills or working on practical coping strategies.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments around work, caregiving or medical treatment, and can reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins or follow-up sessions when helpful. Appropriately qualified therapists will work with you to set a pace and structure that suits your day-to-day life.