Colette Langridge, NCPS

Colette Langridge is a counsellor with twelve years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns. She supports people coping with trauma and abuse, depression, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting pressures, anger and self-esteem struggles. She also works with career challenges, major life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related concerns. Colette holds NCPS as a listed credential and practises in the United Kingdom.

Colette uses an integrative, person-focused style. Conversations are plain and direct, with time spent listening and helping people make sense of their experience. She often looks at how early relationships shaped current patterns and uses attachment-informed ideas to understand repeated difficulties in relationships.

Her trauma-related work includes several years supporting people through sexualised and relational trauma. This work has involved one-to-one support for people coping with childhood abuse, sexual violence and related mental health effects such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic symptoms. Somatic ideas and mindfulness are sometimes introduced to help with bodily memories and grounding.

Sessions draw on cognitive behavioural ideas when useful, alongside psychodynamic reflection and client-centred listening. The aim is practical change and clearer self-understanding rather than labels or complicated language. Colette encourages small, manageable steps that fit into everyday life.

Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Colette invites people to talk about what matters to them and works with each person to find realistic ways to improve confidence, mood and relationships over time.

How attachment, CBT and mindfulness work online

Colette draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns learned in early relationships and how these affect current connections. This approach helps when repeated relationship difficulties or abandonment fears feel overwhelming.

She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behaviour changes. CBT-style work can help with anxiety, low mood and coping with life transitions by breaking problems into manageable steps.

Mindfulness-based practices are used to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Simple breathing and grounding exercises are sometimes taught to help with stress and symptoms that feel held in the body.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods together in a collaborative way.

Please confirm which online session formats are available before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can meet at times that suit a busy day.