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Katie Bifulco

Counsellor profile

Katie Bifulco, BACP

United Kingdom

Counsellor - Relationships and parenting

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About

  • Person-centred approach
  • DBT skills work
  • Solution-focused steps

About Katie

Katie Bifulco is a counsellor accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with five years of practice in private work across the United Kingdom. She lists stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns among the issues she helps people with. Katie also notes experience with parenting, grief, trauma and abuse, and with neurodiversity-related challenges such as Autism and ADHD.

Katie practises from a person-centred approach, which means she listens and follows what matters most to the person in front of her. She also uses elements of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and psychodynamic ideas when they fit a person’s needs. Solution-focused techniques are used too for people who want practical next steps to try between sessions.

Sessions tend to be straightforward and conversational. Katie offers a calm, direct way of working that aims to help people make sense of current problems and find practical coping strategies. She has experience supporting people through life transitions like redundancy, retirement, illness, pregnancy-related difficulties, fertility and baby loss, and menopause-related concerns.

She has worked with people who report self-harm and emotional regulation difficulties and notes DBT practice in her background. Katie also mentions work with those affected by chronic illness, chronic pain, caregiving strain and bereavement. Her work includes issues such as body image, codependency, attachment and abandonment concerns.

Katie accepts international clients and runs sessions using a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a first session is scheduled via the See online therapy options button.

How sessions work

How Katie uses different approaches in online sessions

Person-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s concerns. In practice this means sessions are led by what the client brings, with the counsellor reflecting and responding to help people clarify their priorities and feelings.

Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day coping. When used, it supplies practical techniques such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation that can be practised between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped before, and then agree together which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs evolve.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy routine, for example by saving travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or avoiding the need to be on camera for every meeting. Registered or accredited professionals can tailor the pace and structure so sessions fit around caregiving, work and other everyday responsibilities.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Psychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

5+ years

Listed in

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting and relationship concerns, and other life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She uses a person-centred way of working and may incorporate DBT and solution-focused techniques depending on what a person needs.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years of private practice experience and notes work with grief, fertility and menopause-related issues among other areas.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

She accepts international clients.

How do sessions and cost work?

Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin a first session?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.

Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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