About Christina
Christina Collins is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting challenges, and changes in life. She is an ally of the LGBT community and also supports concerns like trauma, ADHD, self-esteem, and career questions.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and brings practical strategies to try.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now, with space to look at past events when those get in the way of current goals. Christina draws on a mix of methods to tailor care. She uses client-centered techniques to build rapport, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful patterns, dialectical behavior ideas for emotion regulation, and EMDR when trauma processing is chosen.
She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to help people move forward. People often come for help with family of origin issues, post-traumatic stress, adoption and foster care topics, sexuality and relationship structure questions, or compassion fatigue. Christina aims to provide clear options and simple skills you can use between sessions.
She keeps plans practical and focused on measurable steps. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their timing. Therapy uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are offered through several online formats.
How Christina’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and clarify their goals before trying specific techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change those patterns. This approach often suits anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. EMDR offers a way to address traumatic memories through guided processing when trauma is a key issue and the person and therapist agree it would be helpful.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Christina collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She may blend client-centered listening with CBT skills, add DBT strategies for emotion regulation, or introduce EMDR when trauma processing is appropriate. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy provides flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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