About Billings
Billings Collins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia. He draws on several years of clinical practice to help people sort through stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and life transitions in straightforward, goal-focused work. He uses practical, solution-focused methods to identify what is getting in the way and to build clear steps forward.
Sessions are grounded in compassion and a nonjudgmental attitude. The focus is on realistic plans that fit daily life and responsibilities.
How Billings works
Billings often combines tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based work to address mood, addiction, and anger. He also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns, find motivation, and make small changes that add up over time. He has experience in community, acute, and long-term residential settings.
That background supports work with caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and people coping with major life changes like divorce or career shifts. People come to him for help with parenting stress, fatherhood concerns, financial strain, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Sessions aim to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning by building practical skills and clearer choices.
Billings welcomes direct conversation about goals and what a person wants from therapy. He focuses on collaborative planning so each person leaves with steps they can try between sessions.
Billings lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Billings works with
The areas below are the ones Billings selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that reflect personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and finding direction during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to mood and anxiety problems. It often involves homework and small experiments between sessions. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and build confidence when facing addictions, ambivalence, or difficult habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful. This collaborative process helps match methods to your needs and preferences rather than sticking to a single style.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is lower, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while still using evidence-based approaches.
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