Colette Mattos
Practical, relational counselling for life and love
About Colette
Colette Mattos helps people who are struggling with relationships, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She also supports concerns such as parenting stress, intimacy difficulties, eating issues, and questions about sexuality and identity. Colette writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She offers a calm space where people can talk through what feels stuck and start to notice unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding emotions and past influences. Colette draws on approaches that look at thoughts, feelings and attachment. She uses tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage difficult feelings and make choices that match their values.
Emotion-focused ideas are used to explore emotional needs and how relationships respond to them. With four years of experience she brings a thoughtful, steady approach to common life stresses. Colette is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and take place with people across the United Kingdom. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, so people can choose what fits their circumstances. Getting started is done through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step.
What Colette works with
How Colette works
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Listed by Colette among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Colette's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and situations where taking meaningful steps matters more than changing every feeling. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives practical tools to reduce distress and change patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, pays attention to emotional responses in relationships and helps people identify and express core needs to shift connection and closeness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences, and decide with each person which methods to try. This collaborative stance means approaches can be mixed or adapted over time to fit what is helping most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are good for a face-to-face feel and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins or want support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
