Colette Langridge, NCPS

Colette Langridge is a counsellor with 12 years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and midlife concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, career questions and challenges linked to ADHD. Colette works in a calm, respectful way and focuses on what each person needs in the moment.

She trained as a counsellor and holds NCPS, which she uses alongside an integrative style. That means sessions can include talking through early life and attachment experiences, exploring feelings held in the body, and practising grounding or mindfulness techniques. Colette has six years of specific experience supporting people affected by sexualised trauma and relational abuse.

In practice she aims to build a steady, honest working relationship. Sessions are conversational and practical. People often leave with clearer steps to manage anxiety, stronger boundaries in relationships, or new ways to cope with loss and life changes.

Colette pays attention to how patterns from childhood continue to shape adult relationships. She may draw on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and on psychodynamic thinking to look at early losses and attachment wounds. Her approach balances understanding the past with tools to cope right now.

She invites those taking the first step to book and try a few sessions before deciding if the fit feels right. Colette aims to create a welcoming space where people can reflect, recover and build more confidence in daily life.

How Colette's approaches translate to online counselling

Colette commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy when working with people. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps with relationship difficulties and feelings of abandonment. Client-centred work focuses on the person's experience in the room, listening closely and following what matters most to the client.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas to help spot and change unhelpful thinking. That approach is practical and often useful for anxiety, low mood and career-related stress. Together these approaches aim to understand past patterns while giving straightforward tools for daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods best match a person's goals and preferences, adjusting as understanding grows.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work and caring commitments and cutting travel time. Online work can also make it easier to maintain continuity when life is busy or when people live outside the same region. Please confirm the exact session formats available before booking so you can choose what suits your schedule and needs.