Catherine Vincent, PACFA
Compassionate support for clearer life stories
Details
| Name | Catherine Vincent |
|---|---|
| Credentials | PACFA |
| Based in | Australia |
| Registered with | PACFA |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 12 |
About Catherine
Catherine Vincent is a PACFA counsellor with 12 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, addiction and depression. She frames each conversation around a person’s own story and strengths. Catherine aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for anyone who reaches out.
She uses Narrative approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people reframe painful events. Sessions are conversational and plain. Catherine listens for unhelpful storylines and works with clients to test different ways of understanding their experiences.
Background and approach
Catherine blends Client-Centred practice with practical tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when helpful. That can mean trying a simple behavioural experiment, noticing unhelpful thoughts, or practising moment-to-moment awareness. She keeps language straightforward so people can use strategies between sessions.
Her broader focus includes relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, feelings of abandonment, and issues tied to adoption and foster care. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image concerns, and challenges linked to neurodiversity and personality styles. Catherine offers sessions in English from Australia.
Conversations aim to be collaborative: the client sets goals and Catherine helps shape the path toward them. The work is paced to suit each person’s needs and commitments.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship issues among the things Catherine works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Catherine among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Catherine directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Catherine directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and ACT work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It uses simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action, which can help with anxiety, depression and addictive patterns.Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. In sessions Catherine listens for dominant problem stories and helps people try alternative plots or meanings that open up different possibilities for action.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Catherine will review your concerns, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Together you can adapt techniques over time if something isn’t working or you want to try a different focus.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, care responsibilities and daily routines.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does Catherine help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and depression. Additional areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, body image and caregiving stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Conversations centre on your story and strengths. Catherine combines narrative thinking with practical techniques so you can try things between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of professional experience working in counselling contexts. That experience informs an approach that is both conversational and skills-based.
What credentials and region are listed?
Her credential is PACFA and she practises from Australia.
Can I work with her in other languages or from overseas?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Catherine?
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