About Jonathan
Jonathan Collins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. He uses a warm, interactive style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He aims to treat people with respect and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels.
He works from a mix of practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps individuals change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports people in clarifying values and taking action that matters to them.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Jonathan has worked in many settings, including college counseling, vocational services, community mental health, residential treatment, and psychiatric hospitalization. He has led psychoeducational and process groups and brings that varied background into individual conversations.
Sessions focus on concrete goals. Jonathan helps people with grief, self-esteem, motivation, work-life balance, parenting strain, body image, and coping after trauma or major life changes. He also addresses concerns such as commitment issues, communication problems, co-occurring conditions, and compassion fatigue.
When working together he tailors the plan to the person's needs. He blends client-centered listening with practical skills and coaching. The result is a straightforward approach that aims to build coping skills and clearer direction.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Jonathan often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, a practical option for depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness are priorities.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust over time if something isn't working. This lets the person shape therapy around what helps them most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules or different comfort levels. Video is useful for deeper conversation and face-to-face rapport, phone calls can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth situations, chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make consistent care easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English