About Colleen
Colleen Blackman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and trauma. She offers straightforward, compassionate care and helps people find practical ways to feel steadier and more connected. Colleen uses approaches that center the person and their goals.
Sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the client and building simple tools to manage symptoms. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and solution-focused steps to ease overwhelming thoughts and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes communication and self-understanding. People explore patterns around commitment, control, and connection. Colleen also addresses grief, guilt, shame, emptiness, and life transitions like separation or postpartum adjustment.
With 16 years of clinical experience, she draws on real-world strategies that aim to fit into busy lives. Colleen uses motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change and to set achievable goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
People come away with clearer ways to talk about problems, manage anxiety, and make choices that match their values. Colleen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and communication styles.
Approach and online session options that meet daily life
Colleen commonly combines cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical, testable steps that reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness therapy offers short attention and breathing practices to help people notice moments of stress and respond more calmly rather than react impulsively. Finding the right approach is treated as a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels useful. This collaborative process helps tailor techniques to the client’s needs, pace, and preferences. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a flexible check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or days when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use methods consistently between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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