About Scheherazade
Scheherazade Collins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies for attention, stress, anxiety, and mood concerns, and helps people who want clearer focus and steadier day-to-day functioning. Her background includes work with people pursuing peak performance and those facing high-pressure careers.
She centers sessions on the client's own goals and strengths. Conversations are direct and goal-oriented, and she uses straightforward tools to manage worry, improve sleep, and address eating or substance concerns.
Background and approach
She explains techniques in simple terms and helps people try them between sessions. Collins has a history working with attention challenges and issues around motivation and focus. That clinical experience informs how she supports people with ADHD-related struggles, organization, and task follow-through.
She also brings experience supporting mood disorders, grief, trauma, and relationship strain when those issues affect daily life. A former professional ballerina, she understands performance pressure and physical-rehab stress. That background guides her work with people who want to build mental skills for sport, stage, or other demanding roles.
Sessions include practical exercises for performance anxiety, coping, and returning from setbacks. Her approach blends client-centered conversation with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based methods. She works collaboratively to set manageable goals and develop routines that fit each person's life.
The overall aim is steadier functioning, improved focus, and better coping with life changes.
Therapeutic methods online for focus and coping
Client-Centered Therapy places the client's goals at the center of each session. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to the client, and helps set small, achievable steps that fit daily life. This approach is useful for people who want practical help guided by their own priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact. Sessions use simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking, build new routines, and practice skills that reduce anxiety and improve focus. CBT works well for sleep problems, panic, low mood, and attention difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adapt based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process that prioritizes the client's goals, preferences, and daily constraints.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or ongoing reminders for exercises. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, training, or family life and allow continuity when travel or schedule changes occur.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her therapy style like?
How long has she been practicing?
What are her credentials and where is she located?
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or for international clients?
Which session formats are available?
How are costs handled for sessions?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.