Kath has a background in education, working as a secondary school teacher in Bristol and Southport for eight years, teaching French, Spanish and IT. She qualified as a counsellor in 2011 and as a supervisor in 2015.
She has since worked as a counsellor at a high school in Cheshire and at the University of Liverpool. She also has a private practice in Southport where she sees clients, mostly adolescents, and supervises other counsellors. She has developed training workshops around ethical practice with children and young people, working with risk, mindfulness, anxiety and self-compassion.