Colette Spaulding, LMSW

Colette Spaulding, LMSW, uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and jealousy. She begins by asking what has happened to someone rather than what is wrong with them. Her aim is to help people learn tools that ease intense feelings and bring more balance to daily life.

Colette offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can tell their stories. She combines people’s strengths with specific coping skills. That approach helps increase self-awareness and improve how someone relates to others.

People come to her for many concerns, including depression, mood disorders, ADHD, addictions, and the aftereffects of abuse or domestic violence. She also works with issues like codependency, abandonment, communication problems, and intimacy-related struggles. Colette pays attention to life changes such as career shifts, divorce, or loss and helps people adapt and rebuild.

Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods plus structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Colette also uses EMDR when appropriate to address trauma-related memories. She balances skill-building with a warm, sometimes humorous style to make the work feel more human.

With 15 years in the mental health field, Colette blends experience with flexibility. She invites collaboration so clients and she can choose strategies that fit their goals and daily life.

Approaches for online work and what they do

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and pace. It means the therapist listens first and helps people decide what matters to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds specific emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills to help manage strong feelings and improve communication.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to see which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.

The biography does not list exact session formats, so confirm available online options before booking. Many people find online sessions fit into busy lives better because they eliminate travel time, can be scheduled around work or caregiving, and make it easier to keep shorter check-ins when needed. Online work can support the same skill teaching and trauma-focused interventions used in person, while allowing therapy to be accessed from different locations and timeframes.