Colleen Downey, BACP

Colleen Downey is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She has six years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by depression, stress and anxiety. Colleen also supports people dealing with relationship strain, trauma and eating-related difficulties. She aims to empower clients to use their own strengths to make changes they want to see in life.

Colleen uses psychodynamic therapy to help uncover patterns that affect thoughts, feelings and relationships. Sessions involve talking through early experiences and current reactions to better understand recurring problems. This can help with issues such as attachment struggles, communication problems, control and intimacy-related difficulties including jealousy.

She also supports people coping with grief, caregiving stress, mood instability and obsessive or compulsive behaviours. Colleen hears how guilt, shame or past hurts can shape day-to-day choices and works with clients to make sense of those forces. The aim is to turn understanding into clearer ways of responding in the present.

Her approach is collaborative and steady. Colleen invites honest, open conversation and balances careful listening with practical reflections. She encourages clients to notice small changes and build on them between sessions.

To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

How psychodynamic work fits with online therapy

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past experiences and relationships shape current thoughts and feelings. In practice this means spending time talking about recurring patterns, early memories and the feelings that come up in relationships. It can be helpful for problems such as attachment issues, persistent relationship difficulties and emotional patterns like jealousy.

That approach is about listening and reflecting rather than quick fixes. Finding the right way of working is a joint process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt the pace and focus to what the client needs and hopes to change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm which formats are available before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work or caring responsibilities and reduce travel time. It also allows for shorter check-ins when people need a quick conversation, or longer sessions when deeper reflection is helpful. Registered or accredited professionals can use these options to help people maintain continuity of care and make therapy part of everyday life.