About Colette
Colette Spaulding is a licensed master social worker who focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She uses clear, hands-on strategies so people can cope better day to day. Colette welcomes honest conversation and a straightforward approach to difficult problems.
She starts by asking what has happened to you rather than what is wrong with you. That helps uncover patterns and strengths that can be used to change how you respond to stress, trauma, or upsetting relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Colette draws from therapies that help people learn skills and process painful memories. She uses techniques that address thoughts and behaviors, emotion regulation, and trauma processing.
These approaches are blended to match what each person needs in the moment. Her background includes 15 years working in mental health settings across Michigan. She has experience working with survivors of abuse and domestic violence as well as people dealing with mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and co-occurring concerns.
That experience informs a practical focus on safety, coping skills, and gradual change. People who come to her often want help with relationships, parenting stress, grief, addiction concerns, or recovery from traumatic events. Colette also works with issues such as codependency, abandonment fears, impulsivity, and communication problems.
She brings patience, a sense of humor, and a steady focus on small, workable steps toward feeling better.
How Colette’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and often makes it easier to try new coping strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT can be especially helpful for strong mood swings, anger, or impulsive behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Colette will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Then she will suggest ways to combine methods and try techniques collaboratively so the plan fits the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and EMDR-informed processing. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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