About Colette
Colette Kuznia is an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) based in Minnesota with 35 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. Colette aims to create an open, empathic space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
She uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice patterns in thinking and behavior. Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps that clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Goals are set together and adjusted to fit each person's needs and pace. Colette has worked across many settings over three and a half decades, gaining wide experience with life transitions, grief, parenting concerns, and work-related stress. That background shapes a flexible style that combines problem-solving with emotional support.
The therapist also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. She includes coaching elements when helpful to address career questions and practical life changes. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
Clients can expect a mix of conversation, skills practice, and planning. Colette encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she helps clients build tools they can use outside sessions.
How cognitive behavioral work and practical coaching translate online
Colette uses cognitive behavioral methods that help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. This approach breaks problems into small steps and teaches coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. It focuses on activities and thinking changes you can practice between sessions.She also blends practical coaching techniques to support career decisions and life transitions. Coaching here means setting clear goals, making action plans, and tracking progress in straightforward ways. For trauma-related concerns she emphasizes pacing and skills to manage strong emotions rather than pushing through them too fast.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they will adjust methods and pacing as progress is made, making changes when something does not fit.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, parenting, or other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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