About Christina
Christina Collins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 13 years of experience. She welcomes people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, LGBT concerns, parenting strain, career challenges, ADHD, and relationship or family issues. She works in a collaborative, practical way and focuses on what matters now.
Christina treats clients as the experts on their own lives and brings tools to help reach real goals.
How Christina works
Sessions often focus on problem solving and building skills that can be used between meetings. Her approach blends client-centered care with goal-focused methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies. She also uses EMDR for people who are processing trauma and motivational interviewing when someone wants to change habits or routines.
Christina aims to tailor strategies to each person. If past events are affecting the present, she will help decide whether to address those memories or stay focused on current coping. She frames therapy as a team effort and checks in about what is working and what needs to change.
She practices in Illinois and provides care in English. Christina recognizes that taking the first step is hard and offers straightforward guidance to help people move forward at a pace that feels manageable.
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What Christina works with
The areas below are the ones Christina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals and priorities. Online sessions let the therapist center your concerns and adapt pacing to what feels most useful, whether that's exploring feelings or setting small goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In an online format this often means setting practical homework, practicing skills between sessions, and reviewing progress together. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process traumatic memories through guided attention and paired stimulation. Many therapists use EMDR techniques in video or phone sessions to help reduce the intensity of past events.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. If something doesn't feel helpful, she will adjust the plan so clients can find what works best together.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or have shorter, frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the approaches above in ways that match daily routines.
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A practical next step
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