Kathryn Hobbs

My days are Monday, Wednesday and Friday for both in person and online sessions.

Hello and thank you for taking the time to view my page, I appreciate it is a big decision to think about counselling and find the right counsellor to meet your needs.

As an experienced counsellor, I have worked in the community with adults and young people with mental distress for over 20 years, I am passionate about working with you to help alleviate your distress or bring about clarity and understanding to your thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Clients describe me as a warm, empathic, safe and a caring, providing a space where they feel able to share and talk through their difficult experiences.

Working with a whole range of issues and experiences, the areas you may wish to focus on tend to be around anxiety, difficult childhood experiences, abuse or bullying in adulthood, ADHD diagnosis and understanding the meaning and impact of this.  I work with student counsellors, and students under pressures from their courses and being away from home.  

I work with a lot of male clients, who find the space to explore feelings and emotions a safe environment, where they might not experience this elsewhere.  Finding their relationship with themselves, family and intimate relationships improve. 

How I Work

Working in an integrative way, drawing on a range of theories to best suit your needs , at your pace, understanding counselling can be difficult and anxiety provoking. My aim is to help you bring clarity your thoughts, feelings and emotions, to bring about a sense of peace and calm in your wellbeing and a process of healing.

I draw on a vast range of experience from the NHS, MIND, university students, student counsellors and EAP providers. I have worked in the charity sector for over 20 years.

If you would like to book your counselling with me then I offer a free brief introductory 15 minute call via Zoom/TEAMS or telephone, to discuss what your counselling may look like for you.

I am a BACP registered counsellor.

I am trained Trauma Informed Practitioner.

In our first session, it is an opportunity for you to tell me your experience and how they are impacting on you. You may wish to set some goals for our work together, so that you feel like it is working for you, we can review these goals regularly throughout your sessions.

It is important to discuss your expectation of therapy and me as your counsellor and for us to consider how sessions can be emotional and how you manage that between your counselling sessions.

I offer supervision Monday, Wednesday and Friday online

An experienced qualified supervisor offering a safe and supportive space to explore your client work.

It is important to me that you find supervision a supportive, safe and nurturing environment, where you can explore your practice as a counsellor and grow in your knowledge and skills.

Being qualified in an integrative, relational model, places my relationship with you, my supervisee, at the heart of our work together, this is underpinned by my supervision training in the seven-eye relational model. It is important to me that as my supervisee you feel safe to explore what is happening in your client work facilitating a deeper awareness to your work with your clients. I believe supervision should help you to expand your knowledge, skills and your practice to ensure a financially thriving practice.

I have a considerable amount of experience of working with experienced counsellors, counsellors in private practice, and student counsellors. I currently work for a charity in Cardiff as a Clinical Lead but I have supervised those working in both EAP and Health Insurance settings.

Qualified with a Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision including Online and Telephone work.

I am also a trauma informed counsellor, having completed an intensive course.  

I have availability for both in person and online supervision in Barry and Cardiff, I charge £75 for an hour and a half supervision and £60 per hour

It is important to me that you find supervision a supportive, safe and nurturing environment, where you can explore your practice as a counsellor and grow in your knowledge and skills.  

Being qualified in an integrative, relational model, places my relationship with you, my supervisee, at the heart of our work together, this is underpinned by my supervisors training in the seven-eye relational model of supervision. 

Fundamental to my practice is the belief that supervision should be supportive, educative and normative and I work with this in mind.

I have a considerable amount of experience of working with experienced counsellors, counsellors in private practice, and student counsellors.  I currently work for a charity in Cardiff as a Clinical Lead but I have supervised those working in both EAP and Health Insurance settings.

Qualified with a Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision including Online and Telephone work.

I am also a trauma informed counsellor, having completed an intensive course.  

I have a supervision specific qualification for both in person and online supervision, which is a Level 6 qualification.

I offer a 15 minute introductory call so that you can make sure I am the right supervisor to meet your needs. 

I have a vast amount of experience counselling and supervision in EAP settings, Insurance work, the charity sector and with MIND and NHS patients. 

I have also set up and run private practice.

I currently work as a Clinical Lead for a local charity. 

I offer an introductory meeting via Zoom/TEAMS, if you feel we are a good fit, I will forward you my supervision contract, which outlines how I work and answer any questions you may have.