Cathleen Brentnall, BACP

Cathleen Brentnall is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience. She works with adults on relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, self-esteem, anxiety and stress. She also addresses codependency, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and the strain of life changes.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. Sessions begin by looking at what matters to the client and what gets in the way of those things. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to look at thoughts and behaviours, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to identify values and goals, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to explore attachment and relationship patterns.

Cathleen also uses Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for clients who want help with traumatic memories. She welcomes discussion of faith and can include prayer or faith-based perspectives when a client requests this. Work is conversational and action-oriented, with time spent practising skills between sessions.

She takes a practical view of parenting and career concerns, helping people set small, achievable steps and clearer boundaries. For codependency and people-pleasing patterns she focuses on recognising habits, building self-awareness and trying new ways of relating.

Cathleen trained in the United States and now works in the UK. Her practice draws on a mix of talking therapies and focused techniques to help people manage everyday problems and longer-standing difficulties.

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