About Christina
Christina Collins is a licensed mental health professional with 13 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, career transitions, and issues around self-esteem and sexuality.
Background and approach
She holds licensure as an LMHC in Indiana (IN LMHC 39004256A) and as an LCPC in Illinois (IL LCPC 180010213), and brings a strong allyship with the LGBT community to her work. Her practice also addresses areas such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care, autism spectrum concerns, and questions around polyamory and kink-aware relationships.
Her approach is collaborative and solution-focused, centering the client’s perspective while offering evidence-informed tools drawn from cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. Christina emphasizes practical, present-day change while remaining open to exploring past events when they affect current well-being.
She aims to tailor interventions to each person’s needs, drawing from a varied clinical toolbox to create a personalized path forward. Clients can expect a therapist who acknowledges the difficulty of change, celebrates steps toward growth, and works alongside them to clarify goals and build skills for coping with life transitions, trauma recovery, and everyday stressors.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Christina commonly draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR when working with clients. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression and to improve coping with life changes. EMDR is an evidence-informed method that helps process traumatic memories and reduce their ongoing emotional impact using structured bilateral stimulation alongside guided recall.Finding the right approach is collaborative rather than prescriptive. Christina works with each person to explore which methods fit their goals, comfort level, and history, adapting techniques over time so therapy remains aligned with the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for scheduling and access. These formats allow clients to engage in skill-building, trauma processing, and goal-focused work from locations that suit them, making it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions or busy periods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English