About Collette
Collette Duffin offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or big life changes. She presents as a calm, practical counsellor who helps people make small, manageable changes that add up. Collette uses clear tools and steady listening to help people find more balance and resilience in everyday life.
Collette has six years of experience in therapy and personal development. She holds NCPS as a credential.
How Collette works
Her main interests include anxiety, trauma and self-esteem, and she also supports people facing grief, anger, depression and relationship concerns. She helps with intimacy-related issues and coaching for people who want clearer goals. She works with a range of additional concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency and commitment problems.
Collette also helps people dealing with cancer, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and family of origin struggles. Her approach aims to address practical problems alongside emotional recovery. Her methods draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, plus Emotionally-Focused ideas.
In sessions she mixes talking, skill-building and simple exercises tailored to each person. The goal is usable strategies people can apply between meetings. Collette offers sessions in English and works from the United Kingdom.
She provides appointments by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. People begin by using the site matching process to schedule a time that suits them.
Collette lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Collette works with
The areas below are the ones Collette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes because it focuses on everyday steps rather than getting stuck inside thoughts.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of the sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s pace, which can help when someone needs space to make sense of strong feelings.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a practical way to change patterns of thinking and behaviour. It often includes simple homework and experiments to test new ways of coping with stress or low mood.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then match methods that feel useful. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports regular brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while still using ACT, client-centred listening or CBT tools.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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