Catherine Aithal is a trainee psychosynthesis therapist, currently in the second year of her Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling. Psychosynthesis is a form of transpersonal therapy that looks beyond symptoms to support growth, purpose, and deeper self-understanding.
Catherine brings a warm and intuitive style to her work. Alongside traditional talking therapy, she often invites clients to explore their experiences through drawing, imagination, and bodywork. She also believes in caring for the whole person, and sometimes weaves conversations about movement and nutrition into her support for mental health.
She is especially passionate about working with anxiety, depression, stress, relationship issues, bereavement, low self-esteem, identity, life direction, and trauma. Clients often appreciate her ability to create a safe, authentic space where they can feel supported and understood.
Before training as a therapist, Catherine spent 25 years in marketing. Her journey into therapy was sparked during a meditation on a yoga retreat, when she felt a deeper calling toward more meaningful and spiritual work. This led her to Psychosynthesis, a model she values for its belief that within each of us there is a guiding inner light always striving to emerge.
Catherine also draws on a rich and varied life experience, including navigating family challenges, loss, addiction recovery, and parenting neurodiverse children. She runs a women’s circle each month to foster community and authentic connection, has trained as a singing leader and is starting a singing for wellbeing group, and is a committed conservationist rewilding 20 acres of countryside in Oxfordshire.
Based at the Cherry Tree Therapy Centre in Henley, Catherine is available for face-to-face and online sessions most days between 10am–3pm, with some later evening slots after 8:30pm. She encourages clients to see therapy as a journey that takes time, sharing from her own experience of weekly personal therapy over the past three years.
To book a low-cost counselling session with Catherine Aithal at our Henley centre, please complete the form below or get in touch today.