About Christina
Christina Collins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Indiana (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois (LCPC) with 13 years of experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and identity or sexuality questions. She also helps those dealing with parenting strain, career concerns, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Christina takes a collaborative, practical approach in sessions. She listens first to understand each person’s story and goals.
Background and approach
Then she offers strategies drawn from several methods to match the person’s needs. Clients set the pace and choose which areas to work on. Her practice focuses on the here and now while remaining open to addressing past events that still cause problems.
She adds tools from cognitive behavioral work and dialectical skills when helpful. For people who have experienced trauma, she may use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing techniques as an option. Christina describes therapy as a partnership.
She helps people identify realistic steps and small changes that build confidence over time. Sessions aim to be clear, practical, and respectful of each person’s values and identity. She works with adults on a range of issues including family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care questions, sexuality and alternative relationship styles, and recovery from sexual assault.
She practices in Illinois and offers sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Christina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help people address symptoms and recover from distress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR offers a structured way to process traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming.She also draws from Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in the individual's experience. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at a comfortable pace so clients feel heard while trying new strategies. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process - the therapist and client decide together which approaches match the client's needs and goals.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework discussion, or for people who like writing about their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to continue care from different places.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English