I am a psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist with extensive experience supporting individuals in diverse settings, including crisis retreats, charitable organisations, community counselling services, and universities. My background enables me to provide thoughtful, evidence-based support tailored to each client’s unique needs.
Personal Touch
I focus on what matters to you. Anything on your mind is welcome - memories, thoughts, feelings, wishes, dreams, relationships, and even reactions to the world around you, including me or the therapy itself. Together, we’ll explore these to help you gain new insights and a deeper understanding of yourself.
Client Focus
Specialties:
• Identity
• Trauma
• Loss and grief
• Life transitions
Services:
How I deliver therapy
I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy online (via MS Teams video calls only). Each 50-minute session is at a set time and day, weekly.
Fees:
Session rate - 50 minutes £75
How to make payments: 48 hours in advance by bank transfer to secure your time slot
Availability
My usual working hours are weekdays 9 am – 4 pm
Correspondence with me is via email: CatherineTough@proton.me.
I offer focused short-term counselling (12 sessions with an option to review the work and extend) or long-term, open-ended psychotherapy (as needed or collaboratively decided). If you choose short-term therapy, I will help you focus on one significant issue.
Background
Catherine Tough, Psychodyanamic Psychotherapist MSc, MBACP Registered
Therapy Approach
Connect with me
I offer a free 15-minute Zoom video call, which is an opportunity to meet with each other, briefly explain your situation, and ask questions.
Before we get started, I’ll send you a registration form to gather essential details and basic information. The initial 50-minute session is an opportunity to share your concerns in more detail, explore your needs, experience how I work, and see if my approach feels right. There’s no pressure to continue, and sometimes another method or specialist may be a better fit. Everything you share is always kept confidential.
If we decide to work together, I’ll send you a contract and privacy notice that explain what you can expect from me, your responsibilities, fees, and other important details. Take your time to read them—these documents are designed to ensure everything is clear and comfortable for you. Once agreed, we can begin our sessions together.
Therapy explained
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person’s present behavior, with the goals of self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior.