About Colin
Colin Frawley offers a calm, client-centred approach that helps people work through stress, anxiety and life changes. He draws on practical methods so conversations lead to clearer choices and small, steady steps forward. Colin holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has 12 years of practice in the United Kingdom.
He focuses on a wide range of concerns including addiction, grief, depression and self-esteem. He also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, and career pressures.
How Colin works
Several additional areas of interest include attachment concerns, body image, autism and some personality-related difficulties. Colin blends talking therapy with structured techniques when needed. Sessions might involve exploring how thoughts affect feelings, practising simple mindfulness, or reflecting on deeper life patterns.
The aim is to find approaches that match a person’s day-to-day needs and priorities. His background includes work across different settings and with varied difficulties, building practical experience over 12 years. He follows the BACP Professional Conduct and Ethical Framework and uses that to guide how he works with people and colleagues.
People can expect a straightforward, down-to-earth style. Colin aims to make therapy easy to understand and to help people notice small changes that add up to better coping. He uses a mix of methods tailored to each person rather than one fixed formula.
Colin lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Colin works with
The areas below are the ones Colin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Colin often uses Client-Centred Therapy online, which puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions and focuses on listening and understanding. This approach helps people feel heard and to identify what they want to change or explore.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques in web or phone sessions to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try simple behavioural experiments. CBT can be useful for problems such as anxiety, depression, sleeping issues and some eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Colin will talk with each person about their goals, needs and preferences and then agree a plan together. That collaborative planning means methods can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for longer conversations and exercises that use worksheets, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for people who prefer typing, and messaging can support brief daily reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments or differing schedules.
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