About Colleen
Colleen Overholt is a licensed marriage and family therapist with deep experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, practical presence to sessions and focuses on small steps that feel doable. Colleen listens closely and works with each person to clarify goals and priorities for change.
Colleen draws on 26 years as a clinician and leader in a range of settings. She has worked in independent practice, schools, clinics, and community programs.
Background and approach
That background means she is comfortable helping people facing depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, sleep problems, and work or parenting strain. Her style is warm and direct. She uses client-centered conversation to understand what matters most to the person in front of her.
She also brings tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking and from mindfulness to build calm and focus. Sessions are collaborative. Colleen aims to provide structure and motivation while following each person's pace.
She encourages people to name what they want from therapy and to try concrete strategies between meetings. Colleen values the relationship as the basis for change. She affirms people’s strengths and helps them build new skills for coping with life changes, relationship stress, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, and other difficulties.
She practices in California and conducts sessions in English.
How Colleen’s Methods Work Online
Colleen uses approaches that translate well to remote sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's needs, which helps set clear goals and a plan for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus during daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Colleen will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. The process is collaborative and paced to the person's needs so they feel involved in choosing tools and strategies.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework planning, or tracking progress between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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