About Chinell
Dr. Chinell Collins is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, relationship strain, and a wide range of life transitions.
Her style is warm and practical, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns that keep problems going and to build new, healthier habits. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and Mindfulness practices to manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy appear in her work when clients want to shift motivation or reframe their life stories. Clients report working on issues such as panic, obsessive behaviors, mood instability, grief, parenting stress, body image, and substance-related problems. She also supports people dealing with communication problems, codependency, divorce and separation, and fatherhood issues.
Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with clear steps between meetings. With 15 years of experience, Dr. Collins brings both clinical practice and community volunteer work to her approach.
Her background includes outreach with people facing homelessness and complex life challenges. That experience informs how she helps people find hope and rebuild routines. She encourages a collaborative approach.
Together with each person she sets achievable steps, measures progress, and adjusts tools as needed. The aim is to restore a sense of meaning, steadiness, and forward momentum in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and life change work
Dr. Collins commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, then try practical changes to reduce anxiety, panic, or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships.She also brings Mindfulness Therapy into sessions, teaching simple awareness and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus. Choosing the right mix is a team effort - she discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjusts methods as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversation and skills coaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text sessions work for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and quick skill reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between in-person commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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