Kate Rigden

I offer counselling sessions (50 mins) central Stowmarket.

Tuesday and Thursday - The Green Room, Stowmarket (2pm - 7pm)

Online appointments available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

I provide counselling sessions on a weekly or fortnightly basis for as long as you feel it is helpful.

I work with adults who are experiencing anxiety, stress, grief, relationship difficulties, or long-standing patterns linked to earlier experiences. My approach is warm, steady and collaborative. I aim to offer a space where you can explore what is happening in your life without pressure or judgment.

I understand people’s patterns as responses to what they have lived through, not personal failings. Clients often find that, as they feel safer and more understood, they develop greater clarity, self-trust and emotional steadiness.

My professional background includes decades in frontline social care and work within the NHS. I bring this experience, alongside formal therapeutic training, to support clients with care and respect.

I offer in-person sessions at The Green Room Stowmarket (ground-floor access, nearby parking, 10-minute walk from the station) and online sessions if preferred. Please feel free to contact me by email or via my website for further information.

As a relational integrative counsellor, the therapeutic relationship is central to the work that we will do together as it can offer a expression of your own way of being with yourself and with others.

I will work with you to facilitate healing and wholeness, taking into account your individual circumstances, using aspects of various approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems. 

The Green Room Stowmarket is a dedicated wellbeing centre. It is adjacent to  the Union Street Short Stay Car Park immediately outside, which is pay and display. It is approximately a 10 minute walk from Stowmarket Station. The counselling space is located on the ground floor with level access.

My practice is able to support online counselling if that is your preference. 

I always feel that it is useful to have a short telephone discussion or meeting online (10-15 mins max) just to see how we feel about working together in counselling, answer any initial questions, and consider if I am the right person to support your issues.

To begin with I will offer you a full initial session (50mins £50.00) which is a great opportunity to test whether it is for you before making any firm commitments. It allows us to meet and explore what you are hoping to gain from therapy and how I might help. We will also discuss confidentiality and how I will provide safe and ethical boundaries for our work together.

If you are facing a challenging time at present then I appreciate it may be hard to make the next step, however this could be the beginning of a life changing journey for you.

Please email me and I will respond by email or telephone to arrange an initial discussion.