About Colette
Colette Mattos BACP offers support for people coping with anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem and life changes. She presents a calm, steady presence so people can talk through what feels most urgent. Sessions aim to make tricky feelings easier to name and manage.
Colette uses an attachment-focused lens to look at patterns in close relationships. She helps people see how past experiences influence current reactions. That can make it easier to try different ways of relating and to repair connection with others or the self.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens and asks practical questions to help people spot unhelpful cycles. Together they set small goals that feel doable between sessions.
Colette draws on a range of therapies, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. These methods help with managing anxiety, improving communication, and shifting negative self-talk. People come to her for many issues beyond relationship challenges.
She works with concerns such as parenting strain, career stress, trauma and eating issues, plus problems like guilt, isolation and body image. The focus is on making steady, realistic changes that fit everyday life.
How Colette’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person towards a life they care about, and can help with anxiety and mood concerns.Client-Centred Therapy gives space for people to speak without judgement and to make sense of their experience at their own pace. This approach supports building self-trust and clearer sense of direction during times of stress or relationship difficulty.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colette will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That choice is made together and can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when interaction helps. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between meetings, or people who prefer typed conversation. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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