Therapy
What if you’re not ‘wrong’…? Maybe there’s just more to the story…
Does this sound familiar:
- You’ve always looked “fine” on the outside, even when things didn’t feel okay inside.
- You struggle with criticism or feel rejected easily, and you’re not sure why.
- You find closeness difficult — even though you long for connection.
- You often feel “too sensitive,” “too needy,” or disconnected from others – like something’s wrong with you.
- You doubt yourself but can’t put your finger on where it started.
Maybe on the whole, everything seemed fine or ‘pretty average’ when you were growing up — but something feels like it’s missing now. Therapy can help you understand what, and begin to heal.
I offer a calm, grounded space where you can be yourself — no pressure, no judgement. My approach is gentle but deep. We’ll work at your pace, exploring the roots of your patterns, and building new ways to relate to yourself and others with more ease and trust.
Support for Counsellors
Supervision
A warm, grounded space to think, feel, and find your way—at your pace.
Whether you’re newly qualified or years into private practice, the need for a steady, reflective relationship doesn’t go away. My approach to supervision is relational and collaborative—we attend to your client work, of course, but also to you: your responses, your process, your growth. What arises between us can be just as valuable as what’s spoken about. This isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about creating the conditions for insight, regulation, and clarity to emerge.
Reflective Practice Groups for Counsellors in Private Practice
An emotionally attuned space to think, feel, and grow—together.
We don’t work in a vacuum—but private practice can make it feel that way. Without the rhythm of team meetings or shared clinical discussion, it’s easy to feel unmoored. You may carry certain sessions in your body long after they end, or find yourself repeating familiar supervisory themes without quite getting to the root. These small, consistent groups offer a grounded relational container—where unconscious processes can be explored and patterns made visible, within a trusted circle of fellow practitioners.
Meet Catherine Noel
Welcome! I am a BACP registered psychotherapeutic counsellor.
I offer both open-ended and time-limited counselling, face to face in Tunbridge Wells, or online.
I’m a qualified therapist with a special interest in working with adults who didn’t feel fully emotionally supported growing up — even when things looked okay on the surface.
A bit more about me:
Combining my experience as an integrative counsellor (MBACP), trainee psychoanalytical psychotherapist and Thinking Environment® Coach, I work with clients to build trust based relationships that create a platform from which meaningful exploration and healing can take place.
I established my private practice as a therapist after 20 years in corporate roles focusing on Talent & Leadership Development and Employee Wellbeing.
I am a professional member of the following bodies and abide by their standards and codes of ethics.
Professional Qualifications
- Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Inter-Psyche Training Institute)
- Foundation in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (Association for Group & Individual Psychotherapy, member of College of Psychoanalysis & Jungian Analysis, UKCP)
- Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision (including online & telephone)
- ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course: Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood (ongoing)
- Mental Heath First Aider (MH England)
- Post Graduate Qualification in Coaching and Mentoring (UWE Bristol Business School)
- Mindfulness Teacher Training (Member of CThA)
- General Certificate of Online Therapy.
- Qualified Time to Think® Facilitator & Coach
- EFT Practitioner in Training (working towards accreditation with EFT International)
I also work as an Associate Counsellor for MIND charity. I have worked on projects supporting survivors of domestic abuse.
I’m passionate about reducing the stigma around Mental Health and am a trained Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England).
I also teach counselling skills.
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