Cathy Press has 30 years experience working as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, trainer and more recently author of the When Love Bites: A young person’s guide to escaping harmful, toxic and hurtful relationships. Registered as MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor and Supervisor with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cathy has specialised within the arena of domestic and sexual violence and abuse, trauma, abuse, child to parent violence and abuse, attachment and adoption related issues with children, young people and adults. Cathy continues to provide Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to clients, who present with complex trauma, across the UK and internationally, clinical supervision to a broad range of therapists several domestic and sexual violence organisations.
Having been a trainer in domestic abuse related issues over 25 years, Cathy continues to develop part therapeutic and part knowledge based programmes for victims/survivors and runs workshops and trainings to practitioners across the UK and internationally, including the Escape the Trap Programme, the Who’s in Charge? Programme and more recently the VOICE Programme. Combining therapeutic practice, running psycho-educational programmes and trainings, and her extensive knowledge base in relationship abuse dynamics, Cathy developed Escape the Trap programme in response to the rising numbers of young people affected to support those at risk and vulnerable to early intimate relationship abuse, coercive control, grooming and CSE. For 20 years Cathy was Chair of the charity, Compassion, sat for many years on the Crown Prosecution Service Scrutiny Panel for domestic abuse cases and has won awards for innovative work in the arena of domestic abuse.