Katie Caulfield Counselling

14/08/2026

Climate change anxiety. Or eco-anxiety.

This is real.

The temperatures are rising. Everywhere looks parched. There are wildfires destroying vast swathes of our countryside and much of the UK is officially declared to be in drought. News this morning is of homes destroyed by fires. And the unimaginable personal losses there can’t fail to affect you.

Is your anxiety around this starting to affect your day-to-day life? Are you losing sleep? Feeling guilty about your own contribution to this? Angry with those who refuse to see how disturbing this is and the inaction of those in power?

It is easy to feel completely hopeless in the face of this. And anxiety around this is a very real experience for lots of people.

If you want support with your anxiety, please reach out. You aren’t alone and there are ways of managing the stress and anxiety you feel that can help you navigate these disturbing times with a bit more ease.

Sending love.

07/08/2026

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are” - Joseph Campbell

This is a quote I’ve been thinking about for some time.

When my youngest child left Nursery there was a Graduation Ceremony where all the children were invited to share what they wanted to be when they were older. My daughter said that she wanted to be herself. It was an unusual response but I’ve told her recently how truly profound what she said is.

Fortunate are the people who get to navigate lives where they are being themselves.

We are all subject to innumerable external influences day in and day out that affect the choices we make. When I was younger and I was asked a similar question, I said that I wanted to be a Nurse. I didn’t want to be a Nurse. I said I wanted to be a Nurse because that was what most of the other girls said. I’m proud of my girl for choosing to say something extraordinary and wise.

This quote is about living a life of authenticity, of being true to your values. Of self-awareness that illuminates the things that bring you joy.

As for the privilege part. It is a privilege to be able to be fully yourself. To know yourself and to live a life aligned with that inner knowing.

We are restricted by the world that we live in. We are restricted by choices we have made in the past. We are restricted by financial constraints.

But we can enjoy moments of connection with our authentic self. We can notice when those moments happen and conversely notice when we feel that something or someone disconnects us from ourselves. It is in the noticing, in the reflecting that we can honour our true selves more frequently and strive to live a life that is more truly aligned with who we are.

This is often the stuff of my work with clients. Working out who we are. How we exist in this world and hold true to ourselves and our core beliefs and values.

06/08/2026

I work with women who are already carrying a load that is too big, and who then experience:

A death
A marriage or relationship breakdown
Baby loss or miscarriage
Ill health
A neurodivergence diagnosis
Menopause

We work on how it feels to navigate something so huge when the world is still expecting us to:

Work
Look after children
Look after other family members
All while looking like we’re not falling apart

We might work on how to let go of perfectionism or people-pleasing traits.

We’ll talk about the value of recognising that we are expected to navigate a world where we are repeatedly undervalued.

We’ll talk about how it feels to operate within societal systems that are no longer built in a way that enables women to thrive. And how we can create ways to do that despite these limitations.

05/08/2026

How do we speak to people in their grief?

I hear often, from people who are grieving, that whilst they may have seen something of an outpouring of support and love in the initial aftermath of the death of their relative or friend, that dries up very quickly after the funeral. People shy away from talking about the person who has died. Or, they disappear completely.

What people who are bereaved often want though is to be able to speak about:

🕊️ How they are feeling
🕊️ The person who has died when they were alive
🕊️ The death itself

People are scared of saying the wrong thing or of upsetting the person who is grieving. But the reality is, they are already upset. People avoiding their pain can hurt because what people often want is for their grief to be openly acknowledged.

I am here for those conversations. I am here for the tears. The laughter. The guilt. The shame. The reminiscing. The regret. The doubt. To talk about the conversations you wish you’d had.

Wanting space for that is valid and necessary.

30/07/2026

The Whirlpool of Grief

This describes how it can feel in the immediate aftermath of someone you love dying.

It’s helpful to acknowledge and recognise how disorientating those early weeks and months can feel for those who were closest to the person who is gone. If we are somewhat on the sidelines we might be dealing with our own sense of loss but for those closer it is truly the most bewildering of times.

It is the period before we can even begin to truly contemplate what shape our lives will be with them gone. Something we learn and re-learn multiple times over.

It is the time before we can really begin to notice the multitudunal ways we have lost.

It is pain. Gut-wrenching and raw. And people need to be seen and held through that.

29/07/2026

A couple of years ago I posted this photo from my summer holiday with a reminder that social media often makes us believe that everyone is having a wonderful time. This can leave us feeling deflated and that maybe we aren’t doing enough for our children through the summer holidays.

I’m revisiting that theme again today in light of my blog posted yesterday around coping in the summer holidays.

For those who need to hear it, despite appearances, not every moment of everyone else’s summer looks as happy, as wholesome or as beautiful as their photos might suggest. We are only looking at brief, curated moments that capture only a part of what people are experiencing. What we don’t see are the meltdowns, the tiredness, the boredom.

If summer feels hard for you, if you feel that you aren’t as present as you’d like to be. If you feel that you are struggling with your mental health, you are not alone. There is support for you.

Reach out, whether it’s short term or long term counselling support you are looking for, I have availability currently on Thursdays and Fridays.

28/07/2026

28/07/2026

Check out my new blog all about coping through the summer holidays.

These weeks can be tough to navigate. If you are looking for some time for yourself to break up the weeks do reach out to book in with me.

You don’t have to keep soldiering on alone.

27/07/2026

A reminder of my current offer for women who have had a baby in the last two years.

This doesn’t have to be your first baby, and you don’t have to feel like you’re in the thick of it to qualify.

You might just have a feeling that there are things about your motherhood journey that you want to unpack or talk to someone about.

If you are wondering if this is for you, do take a look at my blog post (accessible via my website and my link in bio) entitled “What is post-partum counselling support”.