Collette Duffin
Practical, values focused therapist
About Collette
Collette Duffin helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self‑esteem and relationship or intimacy worries. She is Collette Duffin, NCPS, and she writes plainly about change and practical growth. Her approach is down to earth and focused on small steps that can make life feel more manageable.
Collette draws on six years of experience in therapy and personal development. She uses a mix of approaches to suit each person, and she explains techniques in simple language.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to teach skills, offer emotional support and help people make choices that match their values. Clients often come for help with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger, depression and coping with life changes. There is also a focus on relationship and family matters, including communication problems, commitment and blended family issues.
Collette lists additional areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, cancer and domestic violence among topics she will address. Her practical style includes psychoeducation and skill building alongside conversations about feelings and past experiences. She aims to create a warm, welcoming space where people can talk about difficult things without jargon.
The emphasis is on making tools work in day to day life rather than on theory. Collette works in the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential. Sessions are conducted in English.
To begin, a reader should use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
What Collette works with
How Collette works
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Listed by Collette among the ways they work.
Listed by Collette among the ways they work.
Listed by Collette among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How different approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, and then choose behaviours that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical tools to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful habits. It commonly helps with anxiety, depression and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions in close relationships, helping people identify and name feelings and change the ways they relate to others.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs and preferences and will suggest methods that fit. Decisions about which tools to use are made together and can change as progress is made.
Confirm the session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or other commitments, and it can reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when a brief update suits the day. Registered or accredited professionals use these approaches to help people learn skills, process feelings and plan steps forward without promising a specific outcome.
| 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
