Colin Agnew, BACP

Colin Agnew works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, depression and relationship difficulties. He also helps people with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues and career questions. Colin supports clients facing ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, sleeping problems and compassion fatigue. He uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work and Client-Centred methods. Colin holds BACP accreditation and practises in the United Kingdom.

Colin describes his style as relational and humanistic. He aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters to them. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and everyday life. He believes people can make the choices they want when given the right support.

He draws on several approaches depending on the issue and the person. That can mean focusing on values and actions, exploring how early relationships affect current patterns, or keeping the client at the heart of decision making. He also brings ideas from existential and emotionally focused work to deepen understanding of painful patterns.

Colin has around ten years of practice experience and many hours of face-to-face and online work. He describes his background as informed by transpersonal psychology alongside relational foundations. This mix is used to tailor sessions to each individual's needs and preferences.

People who choose to work with Colin usually begin by describing the practical changes they want. From there he helps set achievable steps and checks progress together. The pace is adjusted to what feels manageable for the client.

How Colin’s approaches translate to online work

Colin commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small, practical steps towards them while also learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change those patterns in everyday life. Client-Centred Therapy keeps the person’s experience central, using empathic listening and collaborative reflection to understand choices and priorities.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. Colin will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. That collaborative process means approaches can change as things progress and as what helps becomes clearer.

Colin’s biography mentions both face-to-face and online experience, but specific session formats are not listed in full. Please confirm the current online options before booking. In practice, online sessions can help fit therapy into a busy week, make it easier to join when travel is difficult and allow shorter check-ins when time is tight. Some approaches lend themselves to conversational work, while others involve exercises or reflections that can be done between sessions to support steady progress.