- Person-centred focus
- Trauma-informed care
- Relationship support
About Colette
Colette Safhill is a person-centred psychotherapist with 20 years of practice. She is BACP accredited, and she works in a calm, non-judgemental way. Colette meets people where they are and focuses on what they bring to sessions.
Her approach emphasises listening and helping people find their own solutions. She uses client-centred methods alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and skills drawn from dialectical behaviour therapy. Colette also offers EMDR for trauma-related work and draws on relationship-focused methods when needed.
Clients come with many different concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy and self-esteem issues. She also supports people facing adoption and foster care matters, abandonment, attachment concerns, caring responsibilities, and long-term illness or pain. Practical life and career changes are part of the work she can help with.
Colette trained at the University of Essex and has taken additional post-qualification training in relationship work, trauma, adoption-related issues, eating disorders, domestic abuse, and EMDR. Her BACP accreditation is shown as BACP.
Sessions are shaped around the person in front of her. Conversations, gentle challenge, practical strategies and paced trauma work are used when helpful. Colette offers a straightforward, warm way of working for people seeking change and greater emotional steadiness.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Colette works from a person‑centred base that keeps the client’s experience at the centre of the work. Client‑centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and helping people make sense of their own thoughts and feelings; it suits people who want a respectful, exploratory pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, involves looking at patterns of thought and behaviour and trying practical exercises to reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for trauma-related memories and is a structured way to process distressing events when the person is ready.Finding the right approach is part of the process rather than a fixed promise at the start. Colette works together with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time, mixing listening, practical skills and paced trauma work so the plan stays collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and to maintain continuity when travel is difficult. Phone or online sessions can reduce the need to travel, allow shorter check‑ins, or suit quieter surroundings and variable bandwidth. Confirm the exact session formats available before booking so arrangements match your routine and access needs.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Credentials
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Colette help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression and addictions, plus relationship and intimacy issues. She also addresses grief, self‑esteem, eating and sleeping problems, and many other everyday struggles.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Colette uses a person‑centred way of working that focuses on listening and empathic support. She blends that with CBT and DBT techniques and can offer EMDR when trauma work is needed.
What is her background and experience?
She trained at the University of Essex and has 20 years of practice. She has completed post‑qualification training in areas such as relationships, trauma, adoption, eating disorders and domestic abuse.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
Colette works in the United Kingdom and is listed with BACP, shown as BACP in her details.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. She also accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Her biography states she is qualified to work online, on the phone and in person. Confirm current session options before booking to match your needs.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a course of therapy with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.