About Colette
Colette Mattos offers support for a wide range of relationship and personal concerns. She addresses issues such as communication breakdowns, intimacy struggles, attachment patterns, and the pain that comes when relationships don’t feel safe or satisfying. She also helps people coping with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, life changes and career-related stress.
Colette uses somatic-informed work alongside conversational therapy to help people notice how feelings show up in the body. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred listening to help people make changes that feel manageable.
Background and approach
Sessions are warm and collaborative, with a focus on small practical steps. Her background includes four years practising in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She explains professional details plainly and aims to create a space where issues can be talked through without jargon.
In sessions she pays attention to attachment patterns and how past experiences influence current relationships. That can include exploring family of origin dynamics, dating patterns, or difficulties with trust and closeness. Work often combines talking, body awareness and skills to manage strong emotions.
Colette supports people who want clearer communication, better boundaries, or more self-compassion. She also helps with body image, caregiver stress, grief from separation, guilt, shame and questions about life purpose. Practical tools and steady reflection are part of the process.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical change
Colette blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred principles. Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily signals linked to stress, anxiety or disconnection and learn simple ways to regulate those sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values, accepting difficult thoughts and taking small committed actions that match what matters to you. Client-Centred therapy offers a supportive, non-directive space where personal pace and reflection are respected.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Colette will work with each person to identify what feels most helpful, adjusting techniques to suit their goals, preferences and the issues they bring. That partnership helps people try things out and find what actually works in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. These options make it easier to access therapy from home, around work or when childcare is a factor. The varied formats also allow people to use conversational sessions alongside shorter text check-ins when that is helpful for progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English