About Collette
Collette Duffin is a therapist based in the United Kingdom who focuses on anxiety, stress and self-esteem. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping people notice what gets in the way of daily life and take small, practical steps forward. Her style aims to be warm and straightforward so a worried person can feel heard quickly.
She explains things simply and teaches skills that can be practised between sessions. Collette uses a mix of approaches that match what someone needs, with an emphasis on actions that change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical tools, reflection and gentle challenge to build new habits. Collette holds NCPS as a credential and has six years of experience working in therapy and personal development. That background shapes a results-focused way of working while keeping conversations human and down to earth.
She draws on her own recovery journey to stay relatable when people bring anxiety or past hurts. People who want clear steps and regular skill practice tend to do well with her approach. She also works with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and life changes, and provides coaching-style support when helpful.
Collette offers a calm, welcoming space where someone can talk through painful events and learn coping strategies. To begin she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit around their life. Sessions are available through a range of online formats so therapy can slot into busy days.
How Collette’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone towards the life they want, which can be useful for anxiety and life transitions.Client-Centred Therapy centres on the person in the room and on building a trusting, non-judgemental relationship. It helps when someone needs space to process emotions and feel truly heard.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has helped before, and then choose methods that fit the person’s needs. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or journalling between appointments. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into work, caregiving or school timetables and to maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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