Colette Langridge, NCPS

Colette Langridge is a counsellor with 12 years' experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma and depression. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, anger and self-esteem. Colette also works with issues such as compassion fatigue, ADHD and coping with life changes.

Colette uses an integrative approach tailored to each person. She listens first and then shapes sessions around what feels most useful. That might include practical strategies to manage anxiety, talking about early attachments that shape current relationships, or simple mindfulness and body-based practices to ease tension.

She has more than six years' focused work with sexualised trauma and abuse. In that role she provided one-to-one support for people affected by relational trauma, sexual violence and childhood abuse, alongside other mental health difficulties such as post-traumatic stress and depression.

Sessions aim to offer a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can make sense of painful experiences. Conversations can cover family of origin issues, attachment wounds, communication problems and practical steps for daily life. Colette offers a steady, compassionate presence while helping clients build coping skills and clearer self-understanding.

Starting therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Colette encourages small, achievable steps and works at a pace that suits each person. Her approach seeks to boost confidence, improve emotional regulation and support clearer decision making.

Approaches and online support for trauma and relationships

Colette draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to guide online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and patterns, which can help when relationship trust or intimacy is difficult. Client-centred work places the person at the heart of the session, with the counsellor following the client's pace and priorities to create practical steps forward.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Colette will work collaboratively to identify what feels helpful, combining approaches when that better matches a client's needs, goals and preferences. The focus is on what people want to change and on building skills they can use between sessions.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow brief check-ins when a shorter session is useful. It can also let people work without being on camera if that helps them engage more comfortably.