About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and brings a steady, practical approach to common struggles like stress and anxiety.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate, and she listens first to understand each person's story. Before moving into independent practice she worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and in residential substance abuse programs. That range of experience shaped how she responds to mood disorders, addiction concerns, trauma, and anger issues.
Background and approach
She uses familiar, evidence-informed methods so conversations lead to clear steps people can try between sessions. Her core approaches include client-centered work, where the person sets the pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas for managing intense emotions and building practical coping skills.
Those methods are adapted to each person’s needs rather than applied the same way to everyone. Dr. Collins also supports people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and multicultural issues.
She works with addictions including process and substance-related problems and assists with relapse prevention planning. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. People who want to begin can follow the site’s Start Therapy steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience at the center. The therapist listens closely and follows the person's goals and pace, helping them feel heard and understood while they work through anxiety and related concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing the behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood-related issues and includes practical exercises to try between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when coping skills need bolstering.
Choosing the right approach is part of the early work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before, then collaboratively pick and adapt methods so they fit the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people connect face to face; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when typed communication feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity when travel or other demands arise.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, North Carolina, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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