About Colleen
Colleen Tavor is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, and anger. She draws on 17 years of experience to support practical, steady steps forward. Colleen’s approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the first conversations easier for someone who may be anxious about starting therapy.
She creates a calm space for clients to talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and skills people can use between meetings. Conversations are direct but caring, so clients leave with tools to handle daily stressors. Colleen uses methods that target how thoughts, memories, and behaviors affect day-to-day life.
She blends strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with trauma-focused work and EMDR when appropriate. These approaches are used to reduce intrusive memories, ease panic and anxiety, and improve coping after difficult events. Her background includes many years helping people who face workplace stress, social anxiety, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress.
She also attends to concerns related to domestic violence, first responder issues, and women’s health topics. Colleen aims to match treatment to each person’s needs and pace. If someone is new to therapy, Colleen encourages small steps and regular feedback.
She helps clients set realistic goals and checks progress as therapy continues. The focus is on practical change and restoring a sense of control.
Approaches for trauma and daily anxiety online
Colleen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and trauma-focused methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to reduce the impact of past events on daily life. CBT helps identify thought patterns that fuel anxiety and teaches concrete strategies to manage them. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets how traumatic memories affect feelings and reactions and supports gradual processing of those memories to reduce their hold.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, when appropriate to help people process distressing memories that keep returning. EMDR pairs guided attention with memory work to help reduce the intensity of painful recollections and the emotional charge they carry.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Colleen will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level and will adjust the plan based on how things progress. This collaborative process helps ensure treatment stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or when typing is easier. These formats make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English