About Colleen
Colleen Overholt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns and ADHD-related struggles. Colleen speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps parents and adults can use right away.
She offers an empathic, structured approach. Sessions are guided by the client's needs and goals. Colleen provides clear suggestions, gentle feedback, and homework when it helps progress between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years working across clinics, schools, community programs, and independent practice in California. That range gives her experience with grief, trauma, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and complex life changes. She also has experience supporting people with impulsivity and attention differences.
In-session she often uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing are added when clients want tools for stress and focus.
Colleen values a strong working relationship as the foundation for progress. She encourages clients to speak up about what they need from therapy and adjusts the plan over time. Her goal is to help people find strengths they can use to manage everyday challenges and move toward greater stability and well-being.
How her approaches work online
Colleen commonly blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely, following the client's priorities, and creating a respectful space to voice concerns. It helps when someone needs support to sort feelings and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches simple steps to change them. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood challenges, sleep trouble, and attention-related struggles.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Colleen will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what methods feel most useful. Together they adjust the plan over time and add tools like mindfulness or motivational interviewing when those fit the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or fit brief appointments into a busy day. These options offer flexibility to match therapy to a person's schedule and day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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