About Colleen
Colleen Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing addiction and other life changes. Her manner is warm and supportive, and she focuses on concrete steps to help clients move forward.
Colleen uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build psychological flexibility.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused so clients leave with things to try between appointments. Attachment-based ideas inform her work when relationships or early hurts are part of the concern. She pays attention to how past connections influence current patterns and helps clients rewrite those patterns in small, manageable ways.
Client-centered therapy guides the pace - Colleen follows each person’s needs and preferences in session. Her broad experience includes helping people with depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, caregiver stress, isolation, communication problems, and questions about life purpose.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through a range of online formats. Colleen emphasizes collaboration, respect, and practical problem-solving to help people build skills and move toward a more fulfilling life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Colleen commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral approaches in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clarify what matters most and teaches small actions that align with those values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it works well for anxiety, depression, and coping with difficult routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Colleen will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying practical skills in session, reviewing what helps, and adjusting tools over time so they fit daily life.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and people who prefer typed communication. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling and for practicing skills between appointments.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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