About Scheherazade
Scheherazade Collins is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience. She draws on practical therapy methods to help people manage anxiety, stress, mood concerns, and challenges with eating and self-esteem. Scheherazade also brings a background in performance coaching for people in high-pressure roles.
She centers sessions on the client’s experience and strengths. That means listening first, then building small, doable steps forward together. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Scheherazade has spent years working with attention and mood concerns and has applied brain-training tools in clinical settings to support clients who want different options. Her prior work in attention learning centers exposed her to many adults and children managing focus and motivation struggles.
Her history as a professional ballerina and training in sport psychology inform how she approaches peak performance and performance anxiety. She helps people prepare for high-stress moments, recover from athletic injuries, and navigate career transitions with concrete mental skills.
Sessions address a wide range of issues including trauma and grief, addictions, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, pregnancy-related changes, and identity and LGBT matters. Scheherazade aims to combine practical coaching with therapy techniques so clients can work toward clearer goals and steadier coping.
To begin, she suggests a straightforward match and scheduling process so clients can start with a short questionnaire and set up a session time that fits their schedule.
Therapeutic approaches for anxiety and performance online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening to the client and building the work from their goals and strengths. Sessions often begin with the therapist asking about what matters most to the client and following their lead to set priorities and small steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic, phobias, and mood concerns by teaching practical skills to change thinking and behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to try methods that fit the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust that plan over time based on what helps most.
Online formats offer practical benefits for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when clients prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, training, or family routines while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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