About Colleen
Colleen Tretton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety and related struggles feel steadier and more connected. She writes plainly and meets people where they are, offering practical steps and steady support for overwhelming days. Her approach is grounded in caring and direct work rather than vague promises.
Colleen focuses on the whole person - thoughts, body sensations, and everyday habits. She helps people unpack stress, worry, depression, and trauma responses so they can make small changes that add up.
Background and approach
When coping has become using substances or distancing from others, she helps clients notice patterns and find alternatives that work in daily life. Her work draws on methods that target thoughts and behaviors, teach distress-tolerance skills, and bring attention to bodily sensations. Sessions often involve trying concrete tools, practicing new skills, and reflecting on what shows up between sessions.
Colleen emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. She has nine years of experience supporting people through difficult life events and emotional pain. That time includes helping with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and issues rooted in family of origin and attachment.
People also turn to her for support with first responder stress, guilt and shame, and recovery from sexual assault. Colleen offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions for people located in Arizona. Conversations are collaborative - the work is shaped around each person’s goals, comfort, and pace.
If someone wants to try a practical, body-aware way of addressing anxiety and trauma, she can help map a path forward.
Approach options and online care that fits your life
Colleen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting thought patterns and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression going. DBT adds skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships through clearer communication and boundaries.She also incorporates mindfulness and somatic awareness so people can notice how stress shows up in the body. These methods help when anxiety feels like racing thoughts or physical tension, and they pair well with skill-based work. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - she will talk with each person about goals, try methods together, and adjust based on what helps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people practice skills in real time, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy days while staying focused on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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