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Welcome from Colette Langridge
Welcome to a place where your journey towards healing and personal growth begins. I’m Colette Langridge, a fully qualified and experienced counsellor specialising in trauma-informed care. With a deep understanding of relational trauma and its impact on daily life, I am dedicated to providing compassionate, personalised support to help you navigate through challenging times. Whether you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, or past traumas, my goal is to empower you to find clarity, strength, and a renewed sense of well-being.
How Colette Works
Personalised Approach: I believe that each client’s journey is unique. By adopting an integrative method, I combine various therapeutic techniques to create a bespoke treatment plan tailored to your needs. This includes trauma-informed care, which provides a safe and supportive environment to explore and heal from past experiences. My approach ensures you feel heard, valued, and respected throughout your therapeutic journey.
Integrative Techniques: Psychoeducation plays a crucial role in my practice. In addition to understanding mental health, I aim to bring awareness to how memory gets stored in the body, which is known as somatic memory, by resourcing some techniques, including understanding of mindfulness, and relaxation practices, I aim to help you manage stress, anxiety, and other emotional challenges, by empowering you with the knowledge and tools needed for recovery. Together, we’ll work towards understanding your personal boundaries, improving your relationships, and fostering a deeper connection between your mind and body, ultimately guiding you towards a healthier and more fulfilling life.
Consultation options
I offer different Programmes to meet my clients’ needs and support them throughout their journey.
Trauma Recovery Therapy
Comprehensive therapy is designed to help individuals heal from relational trauma. This therapy focuses on creating a safe space for clients to process their experiences, reduce PTSD symptoms, and reclaim their lives with renewed strength and confidence.
Stress and Anxiety Management
Targeted therapy aimed at managing and alleviating chronic stress and anxiety. This service helps clients achieve mental clarity, emotional resilience, and a balanced lifestyle by developing boundaries and discovering techniques to help identify and heal stress in the body.
Depression Counselling
Focused support for individuals struggling with depression, providing effective strategies to manage and overcome depressive symptoms. This counselling aims to enhance mood, increase energy levels, and empower clients to regain a sense of purpose and joy in their lives.
Quote:
“The greatest investment you can make is in yourself. To be all we can be in life, we need to truly understand ourselves.
Our lives are an extension of our minds. It’s key to have a healthy relationship with the self to have a healthy relationship with others, and with life.
Many are operating from an old belief system of them selves and life, yet are unaware, and are going around in circles.
It’s true what we believe; so make sure what we believe is true.”
— Eljin
A Little Comparison
What is the difference
Counselling
offers support during times of emotional or psychological stress. If you are finding that your usual ways of coping are not working, and you want to discover alternative, more effective ways of responding or behaving. You might be aware of what is wrong, for example you have experienced a loss, big change in your life, or you might simply feel that something is not aligned, which is causing you upset.
Counselling is often a shorter-term talking intervention, to allow you an opportunity to explore issues, or concerns affecting your life. It is an opportunity to be heard in a nonjudgmental, safe and supportive environment.
Counsellors offer a therapeutic relationship, built on empathy, trust and respect. By offering these conditions, counselling creates a space where you may feel comfortable enough to express your deepest thoughts and feelings in confidence, without fear of judgment.
Psychotherapy
Generally, a longer-term therapy, is often open ended, with regular reviews to check and reflect on the focus of the work, it mainly involves listening to your experiences, and exploring connections between present feelings and your past experiences and events.
This longer-term work allows space to become more curious about the issues often with deeper roots in our personal life, thus allowing you to become aware of where you might choose to make changes in how you interact with others, this might include exploration of personal boundaries, developing confidence where relationship challenges have previously existed.
The aim of Psychotherapy is to deepen your understanding around yourself, your relationships, and can assist in improving your relationships, to bring about balance in your relationships, working world and friendships. It can be especially insightful in helping people with long term or recurring problems find the root cause of their difficulties.
Client Success Stories
Colette’s approaches are vast and very kind.
She has helped me tremendously by helping me know myself and my body better and by providing multiple ways of coping with a situation, tailored to my possibilities.
A Happy Client
I have been following therapy with Colette for a few months now and am incredibly thankful for our sessions and for her guidance. She has helped me grow a lot as a person, work on myself, and help me change my perspective on myself and others.
I like the way we work together with a mixture of some theory and the freedom to discuss any topics that pop up.
A Happy Client
Really lovely, warm-hearted therapist that adjusts to your needs and explains everything in an understandable way.
I have already noticed a big change with her already! Highly recommend