About Colleen
Colleen Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and life changes. Her style is warm and supportive and she works collaboratively to set clear goals and next steps.
Colleen uses common-sense tools to help people cope day to day. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and ways to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that help people notice values, build healthier patterns, and handle difficult feelings without getting stuck. Her background includes long-term practice with a wide range of concerns such as parenting stress, relationship struggles, grief, eating and body image issues, and attention challenges like ADHD.
She also has experience supporting those who experienced verbal, physical, or emotional abuse at any point in life. Colleen adapts session work to each person’s needs and pace. Therapy sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and problem-solving.
She blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion regulation strategies. The aim is steady progress through steps that feel manageable and realistic. People who choose Colleen tend to look for a calm, empathetic counselor who provides structure without judgment.
She invites collaboration and works with each person to find approaches that fit their life. Colleen offers sessions in English and provides services through several online formats.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that match those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing behaviors that move a person toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and emotional bonds, helping people understand how early connections shape present reactions and relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions may borrow from multiple approaches so the plan matches what is most useful in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for teaching skills and doing exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy schedule. Live chat or text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English