About Colleen
Colleen Clark uses a practical, client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the everyday strains of parenting. She blends talk therapy with skills-based tools so sessions feel focused and useful. Colleen holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C) with ten years of professional experience in Maryland.
In sessions she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to share difficult thoughts and feelings. Conversations are straightforward and paced to match what each person can handle.
How Colleen works
She helps clients break problems into small steps and practices new ways to respond to stress and strong emotions. Colleen draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and goals, and attachment-focused ideas to improve close relationships. She also uses dialectical skills when emotions feel overwhelming.
The work often includes short exercises to build coping skills between meetings. Her focus covers a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, substance and eating issues, communication problems, and life transitions like divorce or fertility struggles. She pays attention to how family of origin and attachment patterns shape current relationships and choices.
Clients can expect a warm, practical partnership that emphasizes clear goals and steady progress. Colleen supports people who want concrete tools and a thoughtful listener as they navigate change.
Colleen lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Colleen uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters most and commit to small actions that match those values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while moving toward meaningful behavior, which can help with anxiety, low motivation, and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This approach helps people understand trust, closeness, and communication habits to improve important relationships and reduce repeating painful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colleen will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match goals and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays practical and focused on real-world changes.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to practice skills between sessions.
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