Colette Spaulding

Colette Spaulding is a licensed master social worker who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, trauma, and life changes. She focuses on practical coping skills and building insight so people can feel steadier day to day.

Colette begins by asking what has happened to someone, not what is wrong with them. She aims to create a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where clients can tell their story. Sessions emphasize strengths, patterns, and small changes that add up over time.

Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of past abuse or domestic violence. Colette also helps people dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career transitions, addiction-related issues, and ADHD challenges. She brings attention to family of origin problems, abandonment, codependency, and communication issues when those themes arise.

Clinically, Colette draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses EMDR in trauma-focused work and integrates existential ideas when clients are wrestling with meaning and purpose.

With 15 years of experience in mental health settings, Colette combines practical tools, compassion, and a bit of humor. She works collaboratively with each person to match methods to their needs and to support steady progress toward greater satisfaction and resilience.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Colette combines client-centered listening with structured methods to support people working through trauma, anxiety, and relationship strain. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing a person’s story and building on their strengths; it often helps people feel understood and able to try new coping strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers clear, practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which suits worries, depression, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Colette treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the issue, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. That collaborative work helps match strategies to what a person actually needs in their daily life.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy schedule, keeping continuity while traveling, and making it easier to check in during life transitions. The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. A conversation about goals and timing helps make sessions useful and realistic for everyday life.