Catherine Vincent, PACFA

PACFA counsellor (clinical) with 12 years' experience, Catherine Vincent works in Australia and offers counselling for stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and depression. She uses approaches the client can recognise, including acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour ideas and a client-centred way of working. Sessions are conducted in English.

Catherine presents herself as someone who treats people as experts in their own lives. She helps clients identify current strengths and practical steps they can use when feeling overwhelmed. Early sessions focus on what matters most and on concrete ways to reduce day-to-day distress.

Her approach mixes practical skills with attention to relationships and patterns formed in childhood. That means learning ways to manage difficult thoughts and feelings, while also looking at how attachment and relationship history shapes current behaviour. Clients can expect a clear, paced style with exercises to try between sessions.

Catherine also works with a broad range of related concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, ageing and geriatric challenges, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and aspects of kink and alternative sex culture. She lists antisocial, avoidant and attachment-related personality concerns among her focus areas.

She frames therapy as a collaborative process. People are invited to set goals and choose what to focus on. Practical strategies and mindfulness-based exercises are commonly used alongside conversation and reflection.

How Catherine uses psychological approaches in online counselling