About Colette
Colette Hutchison is a counsellor who supports people struggling with stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. She also helps with grief, low self-esteem, trauma and issues around intimacy. Colette aims to make the first step feel manageable and offers a calm, listening presence for people wanting to talk things through.
Her approach is gentle and person-centred. She focuses on building a respectful relationship where clients feel heard and accepted. Sessions are shaped around what each person brings, with the counsellor reflecting back and helping clients notice their own solutions.
Background and approach
Colette also uses solution-focused techniques to help clients set clear goals and try small, practical steps between sessions. This can be useful for work problems, parenting strains, coping with life changes and decision-making around relationships or career direction.
She trained at the University of Strathclyde and holds a Master of Science in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Counselling. Colette has experience working as a student counsellor and providing online listening services during times of crisis. Clients can expect a straightforward, listening-based style that balances open conversation with small practical suggestions.
Colette works in English and supports people with a range of concerns including postpartum feelings, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress and issues linked to sexual assault and abuse.
How Colette's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening relationship where the client leads the conversation. The counsellor reflects what is said and helps the person notice their own thoughts and feelings, which can aid work on anxiety, self-esteem and grief.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, practical steps and clear goals. It helps people identify what is already working and try short experiments between sessions, which can be useful for career decisions, relationship choices and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Colette will discuss goals and preferences and help decide whether a person might benefit more from open, listening-based sessions or from focused, goal-oriented work. This is a collaborative process that can change over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets people check in between meetings or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into workdays, childcare routines or other busy schedules while keeping the therapy process consistent and forward moving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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