About Colette
Colette Safhill is a person-centred counsellor with 20 years of experience. She works in a non-judgemental way and focuses on what each person brings to the session. Colette is BACP accredited and offers online and telephone work as well as face-to-face sessions.
Her approach is warm and practical. She uses person-centred ways of listening alongside techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. She also draws on EMDR and relationship-focused methods when they seem helpful for the concern at hand.
Background and approach
Colette meets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, coping with depression, or trying to manage addictions. She helps people facing loss, trauma, relationship difficulties and intimacy questions. Phobias are among the concerns she supports people with alongside sleep, eating and body-image issues.
Her background includes post-qualifying study in relationship work, trauma, adoption and eating disorders. That mix of experience guides practical conversations about coping skills, communication and tackling distressing memories. Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and focused on what the person wants to change.
Sessions can include short-term goal work or longer therapeutic exploration. People can expect a collaborative process where goals are reviewed and the approach is adjusted to suit progress and preferences.
How Colette brings therapy online and by phone
Colette combines person-centred work with practical methods such as cognitive behavioural therapy and EMDR. Person-centred therapy focuses on empathetic listening and following the client's agenda, helping people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at thoughts and behaviours and teaches clearer coping strategies for anxiety, phobias and mood problems. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing can be used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories when trauma is part of the picture.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colette will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit their needs. Decisions are made together so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls make it easy to see non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or low bandwidth, and messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need more frequent brief contact. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel while still engaging with counsellors and registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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