About Colleen
Colleen Neuer is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who brings two decades of experience to her work. She combines clinical insight with practical coaching to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and life transitions. Her approach is personable and direct, with a warm tone and a bit of humor when it fits.
Colleen aims to make sessions feel useful from the first visit. She spent many years as a school counselor and has substantial experience working alongside families.
Background and approach
That background shaped her focus on relationships, parenting concerns, career questions, and coping through change. Colleen listens for what matters most and helps people set small, achievable goals. In sessions she uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and build trust.
She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Solution-Focused Therapy helps keep work pragmatic and goal-oriented when people want fast, practical change. Colleen structures conversations so they translate into everyday life.
She helps people create tools they can use between sessions, like simple routines, communication plans, and step-by-step plans for handling difficult moments. Her style balances empathy with clear guidance. People who prefer a cooperative, problem-solving approach tend to do well with her.
She works with a range of concerns including depression and LGBTQ topics, and she tailors the pace to each person's needs. Colleen practices in Virginia as an LCMHC and LPC and uses her experience to help clients move forward.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's concerns and building a trusting conversation. Online sessions let the therapist listen closely, reflect what you say, and help you clarify goals in a way that fits your life. This approach works well for people who need a calm, steady place to make sense of their feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT often uses short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments you can try between appointments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it turns insights into specific actions.
Solution-Focused Therapy keeps work brief and goal-oriented, concentrating on practical steps and small wins. Online formats make it easy to check progress regularly and adjust plans quickly so you can see what helps in real time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colleen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, preferences, and daily routine. That conversation happens early and is revisited as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls are close to an in-person visit and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and maintaining momentum between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English