Colette Langridge, NCPS

Colette Langridge is a counsellor with 12 years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, depression and trauma. She also supports people coping with parenting pressures, career worries, anger, low self-esteem and life changes. Colette lists Jealousy among her areas of focus and works with related relationship and attachment issues.

Colette trained and qualified in 2012 and holds NCPS as her listed credential. She brings specific experience working with sexualised trauma and abuse, and has offered one-to-one support for people affected by relational trauma, sexual violence and childhood abuse. That work included supporting people with anxiety, depression, PTSD and Complex PTSD.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions are led by the client's needs and pace. She uses an integrative approach, drawing on different methods to suit each person rather than using the same plan for everyone.

In practice Colette may look at attachment patterns and early relationships to better understand current problems. She also uses cognitive techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking, together with mindfulness and somatic ideas to help with bodily-held stress. The aim is to help people feel more confident and able to manage difficult feelings.

Starting counselling with Colette is presented as a straightforward step. She encourages reflection on the past alongside building new ways of coping and relating. Clients are invited to work at a pace that feels manageable and to focus on practical changes for daily life.

Approaches that shape online sessions

Colette often draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how earlier relationships affect current reactions and trust. This approach can help with intimacy concerns, jealousy and problems with closeness by mapping patterns and trying new ways of relating.

She also uses client-centred methods, which place the person's own experience at the heart of sessions. This means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and follows the client's agenda rather than imposing a fixed plan.

Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviours. These methods can be practical for managing anxiety, low mood and repetitive worries about relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and agree a plan together, taking into account what the person wants to achieve and what feels comfortable. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people access support from outside their local area or while travelling, and the therapist will work with the client to shape sessions that suit daily routines and practical needs.