Colette Mattos, BACP

Colette Mattos focuses on relationship and self-related concerns that often leave people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She helps with issues such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, intimacy struggles, and difficulty with communication. Colette also supports people facing parenting and family stresses, body image and eating concerns, and life changes that feel hard to navigate.

Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions aim to be a calm place to talk through what’s happening now and how past experiences may be shaping current patterns. The work often looks at attachment and how emotional responses affect relationships and self-worth.

Colette uses practical psychological approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. This can include short skills practice, reflecting on relationship patterns, and gentle experiments outside sessions to test new behaviours.

She holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP in her credentials. Colette has four years of professional experience working with these kinds of concerns in the United Kingdom.

People meet her for a clear focus on improving connection with others and themselves. Conversations are paced to the person’s needs, with both practical steps and space to process emotions. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more confident choices moving forward.

Approaches and how online therapy can help

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose value-driven action instead. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and difficulties that feel stuck in repetitive thinking. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on meeting the person with empathy and acceptance, allowing them to lead the pace of change and build self-understanding and self-compassion. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns and improve mood and coping.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Colette will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. The process is collaborative and may mix elements from different approaches to suit the issue at hand.

Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while still getting structured support from registered or accredited professionals.