About Colleen
Colleen Canfield-Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with 21 years of experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those coping with parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, anger, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and compassionate, aimed at finding everyday ways to feel steadier.
She keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person. Colleen uses clear, hands-on methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused steps to break problems into manageable parts.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and simple relaxation tools are part of the toolbox when helpful. Her background includes work in schools, hospitals, community agencies, and primary care settings. Those roles inform how she helps people navigate real-life stressors and family-related pressures.
She also draws on her experience as a parent to understand common day-to-day struggles. Colleen earned a Master of Arts in counseling psychology from Boston College and holds the MA LMHC credential in New York. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and treats clients as partners in deciding goals and next steps.
Sessions tend to be down-to-earth and collaborative. Colleen often uses humor, breathing exercises, and practical planning to help clients try new behaviors between meetings. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Colleen uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in online sessions to help people manage anxious thoughts and develop steady routines. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to test and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches brief attention and breathing exercises that reduce overwhelm and improve focus in daily life.Finding the best approach is a shared process. Colleen discusses goals and preferences with each person and then adapts methods to fit their needs. Together they try techniques, see what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for longer sessions and deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or help maintain momentum between meetings. These options aim to make regular care more flexible and easier to keep up with.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English
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