Counsellor profile
Colette Mattos, BACP
BACP counsellor - relationships and parenting
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- Attachment focus
- ACT and CBT
- Emotions work
About Colette
Colette Mattos is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She works with adults facing relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. She also helps people dealing with trauma, intimacy problems, eating concerns and life changes.
Colette pays attention to how past relationships shape present patterns. She explains attachment ideas in simple terms and helps people see the patterns that come up again and again. Sessions are conversational and focused on real-life situations at home and in close relationships.
Her approach mixes different methods. She uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and make values-based choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy features when practical steps are needed to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Emotionally-Focused ideas are used for looking at emotional responses in relationships.
Colette helps people who feel stuck by working on communication, trust and emotional closeness. She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, body image concerns, guilt, shame and isolation. Work often involves short experiments to try between sessions and practising new ways of speaking and listening.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and steady rather than technical. People usually leave with clearer ideas about what they want from their relationships and simple, practical steps to try at home. If you want to explore whether she can help, follow the service's booking steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange a first session.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Colette uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT often helps when someone feels stuck by worry or low mood and wants clearer direction rather than just symptom relief. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify thinking patterns and try practical experiments that change day-to-day reactions.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss which methods seem most useful for the issues you bring and agree on small steps and goals together. This means the work can shift if something else seems to help more over time.
The practical arrangements for online sessions should be confirmed before booking. If you want to fit therapy around parenting or work, ask about session lengths and timing when you complete the matching questionnaire. Online work can make it easier to have shorter check-ins or avoid travel, but check which session formats are offered before you schedule.
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What relationship and family concerns does she help with?
She supports adults with relationship difficulties, parenting strain, communication problems and intimacy issues, plus related anxiety or low mood.
How would she approach my concerns in sessions?
Sessions are conversational and practical, using attachment ideas alongside ACT, CBT and emotionally focused techniques to explore patterns and try small changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of experience working with people on relationship and personal concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works in the United Kingdom.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.