Garfield Collins
Supportive evidence-based counselling for addiction and relationships
About Garfield
Garfield Collins works from practical, evidence-based approaches to help people facing addiction, relationship struggles and low self-esteem. He draws on eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom to offer calm, clear support. He keeps sessions focused and straightforward, aiming to help people take manageable steps forward.
Garfield believes people know their own stories best and that strength is often closer than it feels. He listens for what matters to each person and helps them build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
That might mean spotting unhelpful patterns, trying new ways to respond, or making small changes that add up. His experience includes supporting people with grief, trauma and abuse, and difficulties adjusting to life changes. He also works with a range of issues linked to intimacy and eating, including body image and process addictions such as gambling or excessive exercise.
Garfield helps people manage anger, bipolar-related challenges, and obsessive or compulsive behaviours. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Garfield aims to make goals clear and realistic.
He offers tools people can use between meetings and checks progress as they go. People can expect respectful, non-judgemental conversation that focuses on what they want to change. Garfield tailors his approach to each person’s situation and pace.
He supports people who want to build self-love, address codependency, or work through multicultural and men’s issues. He works in English and practices within the United Kingdom. Garfield’s approach is straightforward and goal-orientated, intended to help people feel steadier and more able to manage life’s challenges.
What Garfield works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online sessions
Garfield draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and routines, which can reduce compulsive behaviours and improve mood. Another approach focuses on identifying patterns in relationships and attachment, helping people understand why they react a certain way and try different responses.Choosing the best approach is a shared task. Garfield works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs, goals and preferences. He explains options, tries approaches together, and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or want flexible, ongoing contact. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, family and travel.
| 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
- 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
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
