About Colleen
Colleen Parfitt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and depression. She listens carefully and helps people find manageable ways to cope with worry, panic, or low mood. Colleen aims to help clients feel steadier day to day and more able to handle hard moments.
Colleen uses a compassionate, client-centered style. Sessions are meant to be a calm place to talk through what is happening now.
Background and approach
She helps people build practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. She pays close attention to how past hurts affect current behavior and connections with others. That includes work on attachment issues, guilt and shame, forgiveness, and isolation.
Colleen supports people dealing with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. Her approach emphasizes developing emotional resilience and clearer self-awareness. She helps people practice coping tools, boundary-setting, and ways to change patterns that cause distress.
The focus is on steady progress rather than overnight fixes. Colleen brings 18 years of experience as a counselor. Her practice offers multiple ways to meet, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Sessions are arranged by scheduling after completing a short matching questionnaire.
Evidence-based approaches for anxiety and trauma online
Colleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for intense emotions and panic attacks, such as breathing techniques and step-by-step grounding. These tools help reduce the immediate intensity of panic and make distress more manageable.Another approach centers on understanding how past wounds affect current relationships and self-worth. That work involves identifying patterns, practicing new ways of communicating, and building self-compassion to address shame and isolation. These methods aim to improve daily functioning and strengthen emotional awareness.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for full conversations and exercises that use visual cues, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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