Cathy Press

I currently work Monday - Friday, between 9am-5.30pm 

I am a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor, using an integrative and relational approach responding to the individual needs of each client drawing on her experience as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist using psycho-education and somatic & body based experiencing with Trauma and Developmental Trauma, Domestic Violence & Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence, having worked extensively in this arena for just short of 30 years. I also draws on Transpersonal and Inter-Cultural approaches, Attachment and Cognitive Analytic Theory. I offer counselling and psychotherapy to both individuals and couples and have experience working with adults, adolescents & children as well as clinical supervision to other therapists.

An initial consultation gives you the opportunity to speak with me and talk through the issues or problems that you wish to deal with.

I can then discuss with you the approaches that she uses and how they might be useful to you.

I very much see counselling as enabling you to discuss problems or difficult feelings, supporting you to explore your thoughts and feelings in more depth than you might usually, providing an opportunity to develop your own inner resources and enable you to reach your full potential, facilitating you to help yourself.

Psychotherapy is more suited to addressing issues and problems that have built up over a long period of time.

It offers a deeper exploration of ongoing emotional and psychological problems and difficulties where your usual pattern of response is no longer working for you.

Psychotherapy supports you to develop greater self-understanding and self-awareness, exploring the potential for personal growth, integration and self-acceptance, all of which may take longer to resolve.

I offer both face to face and online therapy sessions. Your session would be for 50 minutes.

Face to face sessions are based at practice in Pebmarsh, Essex. 

Online sessions are provided using the platform Zoom.

I will ideally take some personal information as well as contact details which are all held confidentially. 

I will also share a Counsellor/Client Agreement with you to review before signing together.

I will encourage clients to start where they feel most comfortable or with what is most pressing, with the belief that wherever clients start, they will get to where they need to in the session.

Half day Workshops

One day Workshops

Three day Trainings

Cathy has worked as a psychotherapist for almost 30 years in the arena of of domestic & sexual violence and abuse, coercive control, child to parent violence & abuse and child sexual abuse. Cathy has worked with thousands of victims across a variety of services and therapeutic provisions as well as in private practice. 

Cathy has been delivering training across the UK and internationally for the last 20 years on a variety of issues related to domestic & sexual violence and abuse, coercive control, child to parent violence & abuse and child sexual abuse.

The aim of each workshop and training is to support practitioners from a wide range of agencies to respond more appropriately and effectively so we can support all those affected by domestic abuse related issues. All workshops and trainings are delivered in an accessible way ensuring a full opportunity for learning, discussion, strategies and tools to support best practice, integrating group discussion, interactive exercises, use of dvds and powerpoint.

Cathy delivers both in-house and multi-agency workshops and trainings to both statutory and voluntary agencies and is able to offer bespoke training to meet your agency needs. Delivering primarily in-house or multi-agency workshops and training online, but can work also work face to face.

Cathy has developed two part educational/part therapeutic programmes as follows:

Escape the Trap (Teenage Relationship Abuse Programme) a simple, straightforward and above all accessible programme that can be used in any setting with young people, whether working with groups or one to one, designed to support young people to learn about the dynamics of grooming, coercion and power & control at a much earlier stage in their experience of intimate relationships.

The VOICE Programme, a twelve-week domestic abuse programme for adults addressing domestic violence, coercive control, the programme supports victims to identify the broad spectrum of abusive behaviours, the process of dismantling that a victim goes through and the significant impact of such traumatic experiences.

The programme aims to address the various behaviours of a controlling partner, offer relatable psychoeducation on trauma and normal stress responses, enable victims to learn more about the impact of traumatic experiences and build their capacity for self-regulation and their commitment to self-care.

Who's in Charge? a nine week part education/part therapeutic programme for parents experiencing child to parent violence & abuse, run across the UK and internationally.