Colette LangridgeNCPS

Colette Langridge is a counsellor with twelve years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also helps with relationship and intimacy worries, parenting strain, grief, anger and self-esteem concerns. Colette works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English, including to international clients.

She draws on an integrative style so sessions are shaped around each person's needs. That might include talking through childhood and attachment patterns, learning grounding and mindfulness skills, or trying practical steps to manage anxious thinking. Colette notes how the body can hold memories, so some work may use gentle sensorimotor ideas to reduce physical tension.

Her background includes over six years focused on sexualised trauma and abuse work. During that time she provided one-to-one support for people who had experienced relational trauma, sexual violence and childhood abuse, alongside common reactions such as PTSD, anxiety and depression. This helps inform how she plans longer term support and safety in sessions.

Colette uses plain, direct language and aims for a respectful, non-judgemental atmosphere. Sessions are collaborative - clients set priorities and Colette offers tools and reflections to move things forward. She encourages small practical steps that build confidence and coping day to day.

Beginning counselling can feel daunting and Colette aims to make the first steps straightforward. People can expect a warm welcome, space to tell their story, and a focus on clear, realistic goals that fit their life.

Approaches used online and how they help

Colette commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and patterns. This approach can help when intimacy, trust or abandonment worries repeat in adulthood. Client-centred therapy provides a respectful, listening space where the person's own goals guide the work and small changes are explored at the client's pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking and testing practical techniques to reduce anxiety and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will work collaboratively to decide what fits best. Sessions begin by discussing your priorities, and methods are adjusted as goals and responses become clearer. That shared decision-making helps match tools to everyday life and to how you prefer to work.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around appointments and childcare, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let clients use mindfulness practices or grounding exercises in moments that matter, helping them bring techniques into daily routines.