About Colleen
Colleen Blackman is a licensed marriage and family therapist who centers her work on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She brings 16 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical style to sessions. Colleen focuses on improving self-esteem, relationships, and finding direction during life transitions.
Her approach combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people understand unhelpful thoughts and change day-to-day habits. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and grounding skills.
How Colleen works
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques help clients set workable goals and find small, sustainable steps forward. Colleen works with concerns such as commitment issues, communication problems, control struggles, and the aftermath of separation. She also addresses grief, emptiness, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation.
Postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, seasonal affective disorder, and questions about life purpose are part of her clinical focus. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Colleen listens first, then helps people try new ways of thinking and acting that fit their day-to-day lives.
She supports parents and caregivers who need clearer communication and steadier emotion regulation. Based in California, Colleen offers flexible session formats and guides each person toward small, measurable changes. Her work aims to restore a sense of agency and forward motion, one achievable step at a time.
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What Colleen works with
The areas below are the ones Colleen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In online sessions this looks like gentle, nonjudgmental conversation that helps people feel understood and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hands-on method for spotting unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors. It works well over video or phone because homework exercises and thought records can be reviewed together and adapted for everyday life.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches straightforward attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm. These short exercises can be practiced during a brief live chat check-in or guided in a video session to help manage stress between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colleen collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and daily routines. She checks in and adjusts strategies if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when it helps, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare, or other commitments.
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