Catherine James-Simmonds

Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (CBT), PgDip Kings College London.

Registered Specialist Nurse in Mental Health DipHE

Recognised Practitioner with most insurance companies, including:

AXA PPP healthcare
Bupa
Vitality Health
Aviva
Health online
Nuffield Health
Healthcode

We welcome direct private referrals: Please contact 07944428005 by text/phone or email simmondscat@gmail.com for current availability

Online therapy is incredibly effective and feels very personal. In light of us all being advised to stay alert and stay safe, now is the time to reach out and find some support for whatever anxiety or mental health issues that you maybe struggling with, especially in light of what is going on in the world.

We need to keep talking and be kind to ourselves, reaching out to others if possible. Talking about our struggles with the current situation and how we feel actively reduces anxiety and stops us from experiencing trauma related stress.

Please keep talking and reaching out to others. We are not alone in this. Together we are stronger.

Are you looking to change your life and make it better?

Are you struggling with anxiety right now?

Would you like to feel happy?

Do you want to change but don’t know where to start?

If the answer is YES to any of the above, then I can help you…

So if you are you currently feeling?

Shy?
Anxious?
Constantly wishing your life was different in some way?
Down in the dumps?
Not liking who you are?
Always comparing yourself to other people, and wishing you had more?
Just feeling Meh?
Depressed?
Sad?
Empty?
Flat?
Having Low-Self-Esteem?
Or just generally rubbish?

I offer a Bespoke Therapy service.

During our sessions, we will work together, to find out how best I can help you and ensure that whatever your needs are that they are met. During the first few sessions, we aim to set some goals together to enable you to see your progress in therapy, we regularly monitor how you are doing, so that we can ensure that we are always on track to help you achieve your goals. As the sessions progress you will learn new ways of thinking, behaving and seeing the world in a different light. You can then use all the new skills you have learned to successfully manage your own problems.

Again CBT can help you understand the reasons why you are currently feeling like this, and more importantly how you can overcome this and change your life for the better!

Are you worried about your young child or teenager’s well being? Their mental health? Depression? Anxiety? Anger management problems? Low self-esteem? School refusal?

I have specialised in working with children and young people since the year 2000 and have completed my post graduate training in young person’s specific CBT and other modalities, including my career in the NHS. This is within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and now a primary care adult service also within the NHS.

For more information about the services offered for younger people please visit the Young People page and the about page above. I have also worked with adults for over 20 years, with various problems, that can all be overcome.

Please have a look at my google reviews for people that I have helped already, and their own success stories.

Questions?

Do you have a lack of motivation for life?

Are you dissatisfied with your career or job?

Do you need a change? Or a new direction? (But don’t know where to start?)

Do you dislike yourself, and want to feel better?

Would you like to improve your self esteem and be comfortable in your own skin?

Do you hate for your body?

Would you like to:

Have zest for life?
Love your body?
Manage your anxiety?
Get over your depression
Feel happy?
Learn how to cope with stress?
Actually feel content?
Learn mindfulness?
Help your children grow up to have good self-esteem and mental health, in order for them to achieve their goals?
Have life coaching yourself combined with CBT to enable you to motivate yourself to achieve your goals?

Business, Consultancy and training Services

Would you like your business or to run more smoothly and efficiently?

Are you Staff under motivated?
Do you need new ideas?
Does your Business require specialist Training?
Do you organise events, and want specialist trainers and coaches?
Do you manage a school that wants to learn more about mental Health in children? & How to train your staff in managing the children’s mental health and the challenging behaviours that these children can often present with?
Please see Consultancy and training services for further information and what we can do to help?

If the answer to any of these questions if yes, then please get in touch.

How to know if you need help

I would simply state that if your mood or anxiety are stopping you from doing the things you love, or need to do, then it is worth trying some self-help strategies. If you are feeling really low and that you want to harm yourself, then this needs urgent action and Visiting your GP or out of hours clinic asap is recommended.

You can visit your GP and ask for a referral for some CBT via your local IAPT service, this is a free NHS service. You can also use a free text service if you are feeling desperate and need an immediate response, website below:

www.giveusashout.org

I always recommend visiting you visiting your GP.

If your mental health is having an impact on your life, stopping from you from going out, or going to work, making you irritable, not being able to carry out general tasks, and making looking after your children or family really hard. Then this is the time to take action and get help before it gets worse.

You are welcome to message me and if I can I will do my best to offer advice on the best way forward.

How Can I help you, your loved one or your child?

If your life just feels a bit stuck, I can help you by offering career coaching, especially if you are stuck in a rut and want to change what you do, but can’t because of fear, or don’t know where to start, (I have been there myself) or maybe its due to financial pressures. We can look in detail at the obstacles tat are in the way. Sometimes it can be as simple as reigniting your passion for your current career and finding meaning again in what you do. Or completely revamping your lifestyle by using motivational interviewing and making Goals using Life coaching techniques.

I really believe in positive psychology and compassion focused therapy and believe that every single one of us can find a way to be content, happy and fulfilled.There is also a formula for this, which is very simple and I am very happy to share this with you.

You maybe extremely worried about your child/teenager. As a parent I understand how incredibly difficult and mentally exhausting this can be. My eldest daughter suffered with panic attacks for a few years, before she was ready to get help. Fortunately a good friend that I did my training with was able to work with her and she is absolutely fine now, and actually helps her friends when they feel anxious. It wouldn’t have worked if I had done this as I am her mother and not her therapist. Sometimes there really does need to be that boundary and confidential there for her to feel able to completely open up.

I have helped many young people over the years and I really believe that teaching Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to young people can change their lives for good and give them the skills for adulthood. I am lucky enough that I see the young people that I have helped when they where as young as 8 years old and now they are 18 and doing really well, embarking on careers, going to university and turning out into really lovely young adults.

The adults that I have been fortunate to treat, have also reported similar things, they no longer feel scared of job interviews, taking a small risk, speaking up for themselves, asking for a pay rise, and actually liking themselves from the inside out.