About Colleen
Colleen Wong is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, and depression. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and offers steady support while people take steps toward change. Colleen aims to make beginning therapy feel less overwhelming for someone searching for help.
Her style centers on listening and collaboration. She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Background and approach
That often looks like asking questions, reflecting what she hears, and helping people name their priorities. Colleen also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. She pairs that with mindfulness tools to build calm and increase present-moment awareness.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding motivation or deciding on next steps. In sessions she breaks issues into manageable pieces. People work on practical skills for coping with stress, navigating grief, and strengthening self-worth.
Colleen helps set small, achievable goals and checks progress along the way. Her background includes three years of clinical experience in California. She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, chronic health conditions, and social anxiety.
Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s needs.
How Colleen’s Approaches Work Online
Colleen uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s priorities and create a plan that fits their life. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters most, and helping people make choices that feel right for them.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and build simple, practical skills to change them. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust over time. This collaborative process helps identify what tools feel most useful and sustainable for daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people connect in writing when that format feels more manageable or fits a busy schedule.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and medical routines while keeping focus on goals like reducing anxiety, coping with grief, or improving self-esteem.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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