Catherine Wignall

50 minute sessions. Mixed availability daytime in person (Reading and Henley) and online daytime and evenings Monday to Friday. 

Limited Saturday appointments.

I use an integrative approach to support my clients with their everyday life challenges, surfacing past experiences that are impacting them in their world today. Working together we seek a deeper understanding of them as an individual, equipping them with new skills to help them live fulfilled lives and healthy relationships. 

Outside of my private practice I work with a charity who specialise in supporting people who have experienced childhood trauma and continue to build new skills to support my practice in this area and beyond. I am currently training in yoga therapy and often integrate the breathing and relaxation techniques into my practice in order to promote a sense of calm and wellbeing and help my clients reconnect.

Beyond my counselling practice I have of 20 years in the corporate world coaching and developing both individuals and teams through organisational transformation and change. Through that work I have gained a deep appreciation of the impact of change at work and the impact redundancy and retraining  (Including my own) has on our lives and sense of self. 

These experiences, together with having attended 8 different schools as a child, have led to a deep appreciation of the many ups and downs that can challenge us on our personal journeys and that can sometimes block us from living to our full potential.  

In my work I draw on all of these experiences, along with passion for helping others to realise their full potential, to support my clients in their own journey's in becoming closer to and more confident in themselves so they can live full lives, doing what matters most to them.

I seek to provide a safe and non-judgemental space where clients feel they can bring their full selves to explore whatever life challenges they may be facing. Working with my clients I use Person Centred practice, focussing on what the client would like to bring to therapy each week, integrating Psychodynamic Principles to surface any historic patterns of relating that may be causing or adding to the clients suffering today. The work together is centred whole-heartedly on the client and their needs as an individual since no two situations or experience of them are ever the same.

The first session is a free 30 minute online exploratory session to understand the challenges you are seeking support for and whether my practice will be able to meet your needs.