About Colleen
Colleen Canfield-Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and parenting challenges. She offers calm, straightforward support and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she treats each person as the expert on their life.
Colleen draws on 21 years of experience across schools, hospitals, community agencies, and primary care settings. That background feeds into down-to-earth strategies for coping with grief, anger, relationship strain, blended family issues, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She emphasizes strengths and everyday skills rather than long lectures. Sessions often mix clear problem-solving with mindfulness and relaxation exercises. Clients can expect simple tools to manage anxiety, focus challenges related to ADHD, and low mood.
Colleen uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and solution-focused methods to set small, realistic goals. She also brings parenting experience and practical ideas for people juggling work, childcare, and household responsibilities. Young adult issues, social anxiety and phobia, and compassion fatigue are other areas she addresses with pragmatic tips and short-term strategies.
Colleen earned a Master of Arts in counseling psychology and holds the LMHC credential in New York. She offers sessions in English and works with people by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time based on therapist availability.
How Colleen blends practical therapy with online care
Colleen commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood and practice different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple breathing and attention exercises to lower reactivity and improve focus, which can be useful for stress and ADHD-related concentration challenges.She approaches treatment as a collaboration. Together the therapist and client decide which methods to try, set short goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to share their preferences and daily routines so methods fit real life rather than feeling like extra tasks.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for longer conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging is helpful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or sending updates between sessions. These options let people keep momentum when schedules are busy or travel is difficult, while still focusing on the same practical tools and goal-setting used in traditional sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New York
- Languages
- English
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