Colette Safhill
Experienced person-centred psychotherapist
About Colette
Colette Safhill uses a person-centred approach to help people make sense of difficult moments. She combines warm listening with practical strategies to reduce stress and ease anxiety. Colette is BACP registered and has two decades of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.
She supports people facing depression, addictions, grief and trauma. She also helps those dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, and issues around self-esteem. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment problems, caregiver stress and chronic illness challenges.
Background and approach
Colette draws on several methods to suit each person’s needs, including cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills for emotional regulation, and EMDR for trauma processing. She also uses relationship work informed by the Gottman method when helpful. Sessions are offered online and by phone in English, and international clients are accepted.
Her style is non-judgemental and respectful. In sessions she pays attention to what each person brings and works at their pace. People can expect a blend of listening, practical tools and collaborative planning.
Colette has 20 years of experience and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers therapy by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, with a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What Colette works with
How Colette works
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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
Therapy approaches explained and online options
Colette often combines person-centred work with focused interventions from cognitive behavioural therapy. Person-centred therapy means the therapist offers empathic listening and follows what the client brings, while CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour to reduce distress and build coping skills. Both can help with anxiety, depression, stress and self-esteem difficulties.She also uses aspects of dialectical behaviour therapy to teach emotional regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These techniques can be useful when strong emotions feel overwhelming and when people need practical steps to manage reactions. For trauma-related work she may draw on EMDR to process distressing memories when that is appropriate for the person.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your concerns, goals and preferences and recommend options that fit. Sessions are collaborative so plans are adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or low-bandwidth connection, and chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These choices help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and make it easier to continue weekly or fortnightly work over time.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
