Struggling with recurring patterns in relationships or emotional difficulties? Our Newcastle practice offers expert Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) delivered by HCPC registered psychologists. Understand your patterns, transform unhelpful behaviours, and create lasting change in a collaborative, time-focused approach.
Accessible CAT therapy in Tynemouth, Gosforth & More
Time-limited therapy focusing on your specific target problems
Understand how early experiences shape current difficulties
Work with experienced CAT practitioners
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Our compassionate team of HCPC registered psychologists specialises in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, helping you uncover unhelpful relationship patterns, make sense of emotional distress, and create deep, lasting change through collaborative therapeutic work.
Counselling Psychologist
(HCPC Registered)
Dr Clark has over 15 years of clinical experience and completed specialist Practitioner Training in Cognitive Analytic Therapy. She uses an integrative, explorative approach to help clients understand their relationship patterns and navigate complex emotional difficulties.
Clinical Psychologist
(HCPC Registered)
Dr McCubbin has over 10 years of experience using Cognitive Analytic Therapy to help individuals make sense of their unique journey. She focuses on helping clients understand themselves, overcome problem situations, and make meaningful changes.
Clinical Psychologist
(HCPC Registered)
Dr Hall brings over 16 years of experience supporting people through emotional distress, integrating CAT into a compassion-focused approach. She helps clients understand how early life experiences shape the present, empowering healing and personal growth.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a type of talking therapy that combines elements of cognitive and analytic practice. CAT therapy focuses on conscious thoughts and beliefs alongside exploration of unconscious processes, early life experiences, and interpersonal relationships.
CAT operates on the premise that relationships and events in your life shape both your interpersonal patterns and self-perception. The therapy emphasises a collaborative relationship between therapist and client, working together to identify and understand problematic patterns of thinking and behaving.
Central to CAT counselling is “reformulation” — creating a written diagram or map illustrating your patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving in relation to emotional difficulties. This visual representation promotes self-awareness, insight, and therapeutic change. CAT therapy is time-limited and goal-oriented, focusing on specific target problems you want to address.
CAT follows a structured, collaborative process designed to help you understand and change the patterns affecting your relationships and wellbeing. Your therapist works with you to identify “target problems,” create a visual map of your patterns, and develop practical strategies for lasting change.
What to expect:
Pattern-based difficulties deserve specialist care delivered with expertise, collaboration, and genuine understanding. Our clients value the combination of specialist CAT training, compassionate approach, and structured yet flexible therapy that creates meaningful, lasting change.
What sets us apart:
Recurring patterns in relationships and emotional difficulties can feel impossible to break alone. Cognitive Analytic Therapy in Newcastle provides structured, collaborative support that helps you understand where these patterns come from and how to change them for good.
Our experienced CAT psychologists create a partnership with you – mapping your patterns visually, recognising unhelpful cycles, and developing practical strategies for lasting change. The time-limited, focused nature of CAT therapy means you work purposefully toward clear goals with a defined endpoint.
With sessions available across Newcastle, Tynemouth, Gosforth & more— or online — accessing specialist CAT counselling is straightforward. Book a confidential consultation today and begin understanding your patterns, transforming your relationships, and creating the changes you want to see.
CAT primarily focuses on relationship patterns that an individual cultivates over the years, these patterns can be both unhealthy or healthy. Whereas CBT is a therapy that focuses on identifying troublesome patterns of thinking, to subsequently rectify the feelings and behaviour of an individual. Moreover, CBT is largely focused on the thoughts and feelings in the here and now, whereas CAT is a therapy that delves into the past.
CAT is generally considered a safe and effective form of psychotherapy. However, as with any psychological treatment there are some potential risks, which can be in the form of:
Like other types of talking therapies, the effectiveness of CAT can vary depending on the individual and their specific needs, but it has been found to be helpful for many people seeking to address their emotional and interpersonal challenges.
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