About Colin
Colin Agnew is a counsellor and psychotherapist who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and life changes. He also supports people facing depression, addictions, relationship struggles, grief and issues with intimacy. Colin works in straightforward language and focuses on what matters now for each person.
He draws on ten years of practice and many hours of face-to-face and online work. His approach is relational and humanistic, which means he pays attention to the therapeutic relationship and to each person's experience.
Background and approach
He also brings ideas from transpersonal psychology to broaden the ways people can understand themselves. Sessions tend to be practical and gentle. Colin helps people notice patterns, try new responses and make choices that match their values.
He uses methods that encourage emotional contact and clearer personal meaning rather than long lists of techniques. People turn to him for help with sleep problems, parenting strain, career uncertainty and feeling isolated or stuck. He also supports clients working through trauma, anger, shame, and issues related to identity and sexuality.
When addictions or substance use are part of a problem, he addresses those alongside the other concerns. Colin is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He offers sessions from the United Kingdom and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients by online formats.
To begin, a brief matching questionnaire helps pair someone with his practice and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Colin uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas as core ways of working with clients. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and motivation problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour, which can help with intimacy, relationship patterns and loneliness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colin will talk with each person about their situation, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. The process is collaborative and can shift as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support and for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to work with him from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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