About Colette
Colette Safhill is a person-centred counsellor with 20 years of experience. She works in a calm, non-judgemental way and focuses on what each person brings to the session. Colette is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is noted in her professional details.
She draws on client-centred principles to build trust and understanding. That means conversations are led by the client's priorities and pace. Colette also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and develop practical coping strategies.
How Colette works
For people affected by trauma, Colette offers approaches that can support processing distressing memories and reducing their impact. She has experience with relationship concerns, grief, addictions, body image and sexual wellbeing, including kink and alternative cultures. Work can also focus on parenting strain, career stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, and challenges around self-esteem and anger.
Colette has supported those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and separation or divorce. Her practice includes attention to intimacy-related issues and LGBT matters. Sessions can also address control issues, codependency and dissociation when these are part of a person's difficulties.
She offers online and phone work as well as live chat and text-based messaging. People are invited to select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule appointments according to therapist availability.
Colette lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Colette works with
The areas below are the ones Colette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Colette uses person-centred work to create a respectful, listening space where the client's priorities guide each session. That approach helps people feel heard and decide what to focus on in therapy. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used alongside this to identify unhelpful thoughts and to build practical skills for coping with anxiety, low mood and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and suggest methods that match the issue and the person's comfort. Clients and the therapist review progress together and adapt the plan as needed so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online therapy can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving flexibility around how and when sessions happen. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls use less bandwidth, and short messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or times when a full session is hard to fit in. This range makes it easier to keep therapy going around work, caregiving and daily life commitments.
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