Catherine Nixon, PhD. MSc. BSc. DIP.
UK-wide Online & In Person in Guisborough
Call/Text: 07477 283742
Dr Catherine Nixon - Psychotherapist
Welcome
I offer relational psychotherapy for people who have reached a point where they want to understand themselves more deeply. You may be noticing patterns in your relationships, emotional responses or the way you relate to yourself, and wondering why they continue even when you recognise that they no longer serve you well. Perhaps simply managing how you feel no longer seems enough, and you want to understand your feelings and responses in ways that create possibilities for change.
My approach is warm, open and quietly grounded. Together, we become curious about your experiences — where patterns may have come from, what they have meant in your life, and what might become possible as you understand yourself differently. Our work can hold depth and vulnerability alongside warmth, humour and genuine human connection.
You don't need to arrive with a clearly defined problem or even a clear idea of what needs to change. Sometimes we begin with the sense that something keeps happening, something doesn't quite make sense, or that you would like to understand yourself differently. I offer psychotherapy to adults throughout the UK, beginning weekly.
Areas of particular experience
Life transitions
Periods of change can unsettle familiar ways of understanding ourselves, bringing questions about identity, meaning and what we want from the next part of our lives. Psychotherapy can offer space to explore these questions and make sense of who we are becoming as our lives change.
Relationships
Our relationships can reveal some of our most enduring patterns — how we seek closeness, respond to conflict, protect ourselves, or understand our own needs. Psychotherapy can offer an opportunity to explore these patterns and the experiences that may have shaped them.
Bereavement & Loss
Grief can follow the death of someone important to us, but loss can take many forms. Psychotherapy can offer space to understand what has been lost, what it has meant within your life, and how that loss may be affecting your sense of yourself and the world around you.
About Catherine
I'm Catherine Nixon, an experienced integrative psychotherapist registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). My way of working is warm and open with the therapeutic relationship at the heart of the work. I bring experience from many years of therapeutic practice, alongside an academic and research background, and a longstanding curiosity about how we come to understand ourselves, our relationships and our experiences.
Working together
I offer individual psychotherapy to adults online throughout the UK and in person in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.
Sessions are 50 minutes and psychotherapy begins weekly. As our work develops, we can review together whether a different frequency feels appropriate.
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Taking the next step
Finding a therapist you feel able to work with is important. I offer a free 15-minute introductory conversation so that we can briefly talk about what is bringing you to psychotherapy and whether working together might feel right.
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