About Scheherazade
Scheherazade Collins uses a client-centered approach combined with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness therapies. She is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience. Scheherazade focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and challenges around eating and self-esteem.
She also supports work-related strain and peak performance issues for people in high-pressure roles. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their life and builds on their strengths.
How Scheherazade works
Sessions often include goal-focused strategies, skill practice, and mindfulness exercises tailored to daily routines. Scheherazade has extensive experience using neurofeedback approaches and stress management tools as part of a broader care plan. That experience informed her work with attention challenges, mood concerns, and performance-related anxiety.
She also draws on sport psychology principles to help performers and professionals refine mental skills and cope with pressure. People who come for help with eating or body-related concerns receive practical support around habits, thoughts, and emotions connected to food. Those dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, or life transitions find a blend of problem-solving and emotional support.
Parenting questions and career shifts are handled with concrete coping strategies and planning. Sessions are offered in English and provided online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Scheherazade works with people across a wide range of concerns including LGBT matters, gender dysphoria, hearing-impaired needs, bipolar and mood disorders, and panic or social anxiety.
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What Scheherazade works with
The areas below are the ones Scheherazade selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Scheherazade blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy to make online sessions practical and focused. Client-centered therapy means sessions follow the person's priorities, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and helping shape goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses elements of mindfulness therapy to help people notice stress reactions and build simple daily routines to feel steadier. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, while phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short updates into a busy day. These options help people access regular support without long commutes and make it easier to maintain progress over time.
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