About Chinell
Dr. Chinell Collins helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and mood concerns. She is a Pennsylvania Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience.
Dr. Collins listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She uses straightforward methods to address issues like depression, panic, obsessive thoughts, and problems with sleep or eating.
Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and building skills to manage strong feelings.
How Chinell works
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and life transitions. Her work commonly includes tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to change habits tied to substance use or other compulsive behaviors.
Narrative techniques help people make sense of past events and reshape their personal story. Dr. Collins has extensive experience over many settings, including volunteer work with people experiencing homelessness.
That background informs a practical, goal-oriented style that values hope and attainable progress. She aims to help clients find small, steady changes that add up to meaningful difference. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled to fit each person’s life.
People begin by completing a short questionnaire to match with her, then schedule appointments based on availability. The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Chinell lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Chinell works with
The areas below are the ones Chinell selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Dr. Collins commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools to help people change patterns of thinking and cope with intense emotions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and compulsive habits. DBT offers concrete skills for regulating emotion, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when reactions feel overwhelming.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them. Mindfulness practices can support better sleep, reduce rumination, and improve everyday focus. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process - the therapist and client work together to decide which approaches match the person’s goals, pace, and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video sessions are useful for in-depth skill work and face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging formats allow short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to build therapy into work, family, and daily life while using approaches that fit the problems being addressed.
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