About Colleen
Colleen Tavor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, anger, and trauma. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Colleen aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone nervous about starting therapy.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions emphasize clear goals and doable strategies, not long lists of theory.
Background and approach
Colleen uses methods that break problems into smaller pieces and teach coping skills that can be practiced between sessions. With 17 years of clinical experience, she has worked with people who have faced domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, social anxiety, and workplace stress. That background informs how she helps someone manage strong emotions and rebuild routine after a difficult event.
Her approach includes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses trauma-focused work to address the effects of past harm, and EMDR to process intense memories when appropriate. These approaches guide focused, step-by-step work rather than open-ended talk.
Colleen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles. She invites people to start with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session when they are ready.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Colleen uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is practical and skill-based, so it adapts well to video sessions and text-based homework between meetings.She also integrates trauma-focused therapy to help address the effects of past harm through gradual, structured work on symptoms and daily functioning. Trauma-focused methods can be paced to a client's needs and paired with exercises done between sessions to build stability.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR can be part of her approach when processing intense memories is appropriate. In an online format EMDR techniques are delivered in a way that fits video or phone sessions and includes clear step-by-step guidance.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Treatment plans are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as easier scheduling, reduced travel time, and options for brief check-ins via text or live chat. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only meeting is preferred. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and quick skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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