About Colette
Colette Kuznia is a licensed LPCC with 35 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She offers straightforward, calm guidance and focuses on setting clear goals with each person. Colette aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Her approach centers on cognitive behavioral methods, meaning she helps people notice unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behavior and practices alternatives. Sessions are collaborative - goals are chosen together and adjusted as progress is made.
Background and approach
She also brings coaching skills to support career and life-transition concerns. Colette has long experience working with relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting questions, and the challenges of bipolar disorder and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue and anger management, offering practical tools to ease daily strain.
In sessions she keeps language simple and actions concrete. People can expect strategies they can try between meetings, along with space to talk through painful memories or ongoing stressors. The tone is empathetic and nonjudgmental.
Colette practices in Minnesota and conducts therapy in English. She offers several remote formats to fit different schedules and preferences, and she helps people choose approaches that match their needs.
How cognitive approaches translate to online care
Colette uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, and stress. This approach teaches concrete skills such as behavior experiments, thought records, and activity planning to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also applies practical coaching strategies to address career concerns, life transitions, and motivation. Coaching in sessions focuses on setting small goals, creating action steps, and tracking progress between meetings so change feels achievable.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Colette collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as needed rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy with Colette is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues; phone sessions can fit into a work break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English