About Collette
Collette Duffin is a counsellor who focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and traumatic experiences. She uses a practical, down-to-earth approach aimed at everyday change. Collette works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
Collette draws on six years of experience in therapy and personal development. She combines talking therapies with body-aware methods to help people notice how stress shows up in their bodies and daily lives.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her work often supports people dealing with relationship strain, issues around intimacy and communication, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss. She also helps with grief, anger, depression and the pressures of caregiving or serious illness in the family.
Additional areas of focus include abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family matters and family of origin problems. Collette uses a mix of approaches such as somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centred methods, cognitive behavioural tools and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy. These tools are offered in simple language and practical exercises to try between sessions.
Collette aims to make sessions feel welcoming and straightforward. Her credential is NCPS and she brings a results-oriented, person-focused style. People who want clear tools and gentle body-based awareness to manage strong feelings may find her approach helpful.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breath work and movement suggestions that help people notice and regulate physical tension. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses and feeling disconnected from the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions towards them while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. It is useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions because it combines practical steps with mindfulness and acceptance skills. Client-centred therapy offers a warm, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports the person's own insight and choices.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of initial work. The therapist will discuss needs, goals and preferences and together decide which approaches to try. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online therapy through video, phone, live chat or messaging gives flexible options for different lives and schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face contact, while phone or chat can suit those who prefer less visual focus. Messaging and text-based sessions make it easier to capture thoughts between appointments. These formats aim to make consistent support more accessible for people juggling busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English