About Colin
Colin Overton is a licensed counselor who helps people manage anxiety and a wide range of life stresses. He focuses on relationship problems, family and parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, and mood challenges like depression and bipolar. Colin speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming.
He uses a straightforward, open style in sessions. People can expect a respectful space to talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Colin encourages practical steps you can try between meetings and works at a pace that fits each person. With ten years of professional experience and an Illinois LCPC credential, he draws on proven therapeutic techniques to address issues such as addictions, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. He also supports people coping with career stress, life transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Colin pays attention to individual differences and cultural context. He notes additional experience with adoption and foster care, blended family issues, gender dysphoria, and concerns related to sexual assault and abuse. He also helps clients navigating non-monogamous relationships, HIV/AIDS, and multicultural stressors.
Sessions are offered in English and include phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. The goal is to help people build clearer coping strategies, improve communication, and reduce anxiety so daily life feels more manageable.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Colin commonly uses evidence-based methods that focus on skills and real-life changes. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through practical exercises and gradual behavior changes; this helps people reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Another approach targets relationship patterns and communication, helping people identify unhelpful cycles and practice clearer, calmer interactions to improve intimacy and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Colin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which techniques to try, and they adjust the plan over time based on what works best.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or use shorter, focused exchanges when that suits them. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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