About Colette
Colette Safhill is a person-centred counsellor with 20 years of hands-on experience. She uses a calm, non-judgemental style to help people talk through stress, anxiety and life changes. Colette is BACP accredited, and she offers sessions online and by phone.
She focuses on practical, everyday problems that get in the way of feeling steady. That includes worries about work, sleep and eating, relationship or intimacy issues, grief, and coping after trauma or abuse.
Background and approach
Colette also supports people facing addiction, bereavement, and the emotional strain of caregiving or illness. Her approach puts the person at the centre of therapy. Conversations begin with what matters most to the client.
Over time she helps people name patterns, try new ways of coping, and decide what changes they want to make. Colette draws on a range of approaches to suit different needs. She commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills for emotional regulation, and EMDR when trauma memories are a focus.
She also brings relationship work informed by the Gottman Method when couples issues arise. Sessions are offered in English to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. The first step is a short matching questionnaire to help connect someone with the right therapist, followed by scheduling a session according to availability.
Approaches for online therapy and practical support
Colette often uses client-centred work that focuses on listening and responding to what the person brings. This approach helps people feel heard and decide what they want to change in daily life.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. CBT is useful for worries, sleep problems and stress that affect everyday functioning. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for regulating strong emotions and improving communication, which can help with anger, relationship strain and self-esteem concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Colette will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s situation. She will review progress and adjust the approach as needed so the work remains practical and focused on the client’s aims.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer written conversation. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or travel.
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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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