Colette Safhill, BACP

Colette Safhill is a BACP psychotherapist with 20 years of experience. She trained at the University of Essex and works from the United Kingdom. Colette focuses on everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression and anger, and also supports people coping with relationships, addiction and trauma.

She works in a person-centred way, listening to what each person brings and responding without judgement. That means sessions are led by the client's concerns and pace, with practical ideas offered when useful. Colette also uses approaches including cognitive behavioural work, dialectical behaviour strategies and EMDR where appropriate.

Her background includes post-qualifying training in relationship therapy, adoption and foster care issues, eating disorders and domestic abuse. She has experience supporting people with grief, intimacy problems, body image and long-term health conditions. Colette notes work with attachment, abandonment and communication problems among her additional focus areas.

Sessions may include skills practice, talking through recent situations, and looking at patterns that keep problems repeating. For people dealing with anger this can mean learning short techniques to reduce reactivity and then addressing the beliefs and relationship patterns that feed resentment.

Colette offers work in English and accepts international clients. She is insured and listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). To begin, clients follow the site's steps to match and book a first session.

How Colette uses therapeutic approaches online