About Colleen
Dr. Colleen McMahon is a licensed psychologist practicing in Ohio. She brings seven years of direct clinical experience and a long history working in schools, hospitals, and clinics to help people manage stress and anxiety.
Her approach is practical and focused on clear, usable skills for daily life. She emphasizes therapies that teach concrete coping tools. Sessions often include work on behavior strategies, problem solving, and ways to reduce worry and sleep disruption.
Background and approach
Dr. McMahon uses mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas alongside cognitive and solution-focused techniques to help people notice what matters and act on it. She often supports parents who want calmer routines at home and people with ADHD or autism who need strategies to meet personal and work goals.
Her work draws on strengths and on small, doable steps rather than long lists of tasks. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs a plan that fits their life. Dr.
McMahon also brings an academic perspective as a psychology professor. She aims to translate research into therapy that actually helps in day-to-day situations. That means trying approaches, checking whether they help, and adapting based on client feedback.
Her style is warm and accepting. She aims to help people build resilience, reduce stress, and move toward the life they want using methods that make sense to them.
Approaches and online tools that help manage anxiety
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help when anxiety leads to avoidance or when stress pulls someone away from what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep anxiety going and teaches practical techniques to change them, such as breaking problems into smaller steps and testing unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep, stress, and emotional balance.Finding the right fit is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try an approach, and adjust what isn’t working. That means using ACT exercises one week, CBT tools the next, and motivational interviewing when extra support is needed to start new habits. Clients shape the plan based on what helps them make progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging lets people send quick updates, practice new skills between sessions, and fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it simpler to use therapy consistently and adapt the way sessions happen to daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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