About Mankea
Mankea Collier helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood shifts, relationship strain, or the effects of past trauma. She works with individuals facing addiction, grief, parenting strain, ADHD challenges, body image or self-esteem struggles, and other life disruptions. Mankea is an LCPC with 19 years of experience and speaks English.
She favors straightforward, practical work in sessions. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what small steps can make life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside client-centered and psychodynamic ideas. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help making change stick. Mankea has long experience in crisis work, case management, and coordinating care.
That background shapes how she plans treatment and connects people with additional resources when needed. She brings techniques that match each person's situation rather than following a single method. Sessions are aimed at clear goals such as reducing panic, improving sleep, managing impulses, or repairing communication.
Practical skills, emotion regulation strategies, and short-term behavior plans often appear in early meetings. Mankea also makes space to talk about deeper patterns like attachment, abandonment wounds, and long-standing guilt or shame. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth approach tend to do well with her.
She explains options plainly and helps people test what works for them. Progress is built step by step and adjusted as goals change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides the therapist to tailor support to real needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear exercises and plans for change; it is useful for anxiety, panic, mood problems, sleep, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication, which can help with impulsivity, intense emotions, and relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try strategies, and adjust methods together. Sessions mix short-term practical tools and deeper work on patterns like attachment or abandonment when that fits the person's goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between longer meetings and keep momentum with brief updates or reminders.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English