About Garfield
Garfield Collins is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of experience. He offers calm, practical support for people facing addiction, relationship strains, low self-esteem and major life changes. He meets people where they are and helps them take the first steps toward change.
Garfield treats grief and loss alongside trauma and abuse concerns. He also works with intimacy-related difficulties, eating and anger issues, and mood concerns such as bipolar.
How Garfield works
In addition, he focuses on attachment and body image worries, codependency and commitment problems, and various process addictions like gambling or problematic internet use. His style is down-to-earth and strengths-based. He helps people identify what is already working for them and builds small, concrete steps from there.
Conversations aim to be straightforward and paced to each person's comfort so progress feels manageable rather than overwhelming. People can expect practical strategies alongside time to make sense of painful experiences. Garfield supports work on isolation and loneliness, men's issues and multicultural concerns as these affect day-to-day coping.
He also helps people address obsessions and compulsions, seasonal mood shifts, and self-love difficulties. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual. Garfield encourages collaboration about goals and methods, and he adapts his approach as those goals change over time.
What Garfield works with
The areas below are the ones Garfield selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Garfield uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer understanding. One approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns and develop new coping strategies to manage cravings, mood shifts and compulsive behaviours. Another approach concentrates on relationships and attachment, helping people notice repeating dynamics and try different ways of relating to reduce conflict and isolation.Finding the right method is part of the process. Garfield will work together with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and preferences, and he will adjust methods over time as needs change. This is collaborative rather than prescriptive, with goals set by the individual.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and surroundings permit. Phone sessions can be used when a shorter check-in is needed or when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer typed communication or want more frequent, brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, while keeping the focus on steady, achievable progress.
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