Katy Askew Gillott

I am available to meet daytimes Monday - Thursday.  

I offer face to face sessions in Hayfield, online sessions and Outdoor Therapy in Hayfield. 

As a person-centred psychotherapist and counsellor with 17 years of counselling experience, I offer a secure, welcoming and confidential space in which you can be understood and valued.  Together we will reflect upon and explore your particular challenges with a view to making sense of how things have come to be as they are.  I hope to help you become un-stuck and to help you feel able to take part fully in life once again. 

I work in a person-centred way with adults with a broad range of experiences including relationship issues, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, phobias, anger management, family issues, addiction(s), separation/divorce, bereavement, eating disorders, abuse, low self-esteem, stress and low self-confidence. 

I trained at The Sherwood Institute in Nottingham and hold a Masters research degree in Humanistic Person-Centred Psychotherapy. I have a Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision and I also hold a BA (Hons) in Philosophy. Additionally, I hold a Certificate in Ecotherapy. 

​I have experience working with adults in a variety of settings and have focused experience working with adult carers and women experiencing distress and challenge. Alongside my private work, I have worked for Breast Cancer Care facilitating a support group for women living with secondary breast cancer and I have both lectured and tutored on the University of Salford's Counselling and Psychotherapy BSc and MSc courses.

​I have a particular interest in taking therapy outside and have completed extensive training in this area.  Outdoor Therapy allows for an alternative means of therapeutic exploration and facilitates a wide spectrum of related insight. 

​I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a member of the BACP and as such adhere to associated codes of ethics.

Our first session is a chance to experience working together.  Following a first session, we can decide if we would like to continue working together.  First session fees are set at the same rate as standard session fees. 

I am available daytimes Monday to Thursday.

I offer sessions face to face in Hayfield, online or outdoors in Hayfield.

I offer person-centred / humanistic supervision, one to one or in group. I trained with The Sherwood Institute (Nottingham) to 'Teaching Supervisor' level in 2013 and have been practicing as a supervisor for 8 years.  I work with both new and established therapists.  Additionally I am qualified to take on students in training and can incorporate teaching aspects in any supervision I offer.  

Having worked with clients for 17 years, I use my broad range of counselling and psychotherapy experience in my supervisory practice and work with supervisees in a non-judgemental, holding and mutual way.  

I have a particular interest in taking both therapy and supervision outside and have completed extensive training in this area.  Outdoor Therapy and Supervision allow for an alternative means of therapeutic exploration and facilitate a wide spectrum of related insight. 

I offer a 30 minute introductory meeting (in person or online) for which there is no charge.  This meeting is an opportunity for us to experience working together and will help us decide whether working together going forward is a good fit for us both.