Colette Spaulding

Colette Spaulding, LMSW, uses a client-centered approach to help people manage strong emotions and life stress. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical strategies. Her style is warm, direct, and often lightly humorous to ease hard conversations.

Colette begins by asking what has happened to someone, not what is wrong with them. She creates a nonjudgmental space for people to tell their stories. Together they look at patterns, strengths, and coping skills to build clearer self-awareness and better relationships.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to manage intense emotions and reduce impulsive actions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is among the methods she may use when past trauma affects current life.

Colette has about 15 years of experience in the mental health field and has worked with people affected by abuse, domestic violence, mood disorders, OCD, anxiety, depression, and anger. She treats each person as a whole, not just a diagnosis, and tailors interventions to individual needs.

Clients work on goals like reducing anxiety, handling grief, improving communication, and coping with life changes. Colette emphasizes collaboration - the client and therapist decide what fits best. Her aim is to support healing while helping people find more satisfaction and peace of mind.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and building a trusting relationship. Online work using this approach centers on listening, validation, and helping clients set their own goals in a nonjudgmental way.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practice new techniques to change them. In online sessions this can include tracking thought patterns, trying behavioral experiments between meetings, and reviewing results together.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. A therapist can teach and coach DBT skills remotely and help someone practice them between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That planning happens together so the treatment can be adjusted over time.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a quick session is needed. It also makes it possible to continue care when schedules or locations change, while the therapist and client decide what works best for their work together.