Katie Shaw, BACP

Katie Shaw is an integrative counsellor based in Alvechurch, South Birmingham, United Kingdom. She qualified in 2003 and has over 22 years of clinical practice across a range of settings, including her role as a school counsellor working with secondary school and sixth form students as well as staff. Her work draws on multiple therapeutic models - including person-centred, cognitive behavioural, and solution-focused approaches - so that interventions are tailored to each person’s needs. She is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the UK professional body that recognises standards for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Katie is warm, empathic, and non-judgemental, and places the individual at the centre of every session. She offers a safe and personal space for exploration and reflection, helping people to consider their choices and to build greater self-understanding and acceptance. Her core specialties include stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, self-esteem concerns, and depression, and she also works with issues such as aging and geriatric concerns, attachment difficulties, body image, cancer-related distress, caregiver stress, communication challenges, control issues, divorce and separation, substance use problems, feelings of emptiness, family conflict, fertility concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and isolation or loneliness.

Sessions are adapted to the individual and focus on increasing confidence, strengthening self-esteem, and developing more resourceful ways of living. Her combined experience in community and school settings informs her practice with both young people and adults, and she accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally.