About Derrick
Derrick Collins helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, addictions, and life transitions. He also supports people dealing with grief, self-esteem struggles, work and career questions, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. Derrick is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with nearly three decades of clinical experience in Georgia.
He uses a direct, conversational style in sessions. Conversations are interactive and goal oriented. Derrick aims to move at a pace that feels manageable while staying caring and nonjudgmental.
Background and approach
His approach mixes practical tools and brief problem-solving with attention to emotions and relationships. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns and on emotionally focused ideas to address relationship and attachment concerns. Solution-focused methods are used to set clear, achievable goals and track progress.
Derrick has worked with people facing a wide range of challenges, from process and substance addictions to workplace stress and social anxiety. He pays attention to issues like communication problems, control issues, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. He also offers coaching-style support for life purpose and career decisions.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Derrick brings 29 years of experience as an LPC to his practice and aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling better.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Derrick commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments and skills people can use between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.He also draws on emotionally focused ideas when relationship patterns and attachment feelings are central. This approach helps people notice emotional responses and change how they relate to others or to themselves. Solution-focused work appears in sessions as brief, forward-looking conversations that set concrete goals and track small wins.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Derrick works collaboratively to decide what fits a person's needs and goals. He will adjust methods as progress is made and as preferences become clearer.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow more verbal and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between longer visits. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Georgia
- Languages
- English