About Colin
Colin Overton is a licensed counselor based in Illinois who concentrates on relationship concerns, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
With a decade of professional experience and an LCPC credential, he supports people facing a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, intimacy struggles, ADHD, and stress related to career and life transitions.
His practice also addresses specialized topics like adoption and foster care, polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, BDSM and alternative sex culture, multicultural concerns, and sexual assault and abuse. Colin prioritizes building an open, nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can explore difficult thoughts and emotions.
He emphasizes collaborative work - partnering with each person to identify goals and practical steps toward change. His background includes work with grief, compassion fatigue, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and blended family issues, bringing breadth across clinical and relational concerns.
Colin offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for clients in Illinois. He communicates in English and holds the Illinois LCPC license number IL LCPC 180013381.
Prospective clients are invited to begin by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire to schedule according to his availability.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Access
Many evidence-based techniques focus on helping people process difficult emotions and improve relationships. One common approach uses trauma-informed strategies that help individuals recognize the impact of past hurt, develop coping skills, and reduce symptoms related to trauma and abuse. Another practical method emphasizes skills-building for anxiety, stress, and mood management by teaching behavioral and cognitive tools to change unhelpful patterns and improve daily functioning.Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Colin will work with each client to identify which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting methods over time as progress and challenges emerge. This partnership helps tailor interventions to relationship issues, parenting concerns, grief work, or other areas of focus.
Online therapy formats offer flexibility for scheduling and consistent access to care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide convenience when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief communications between sessions. These options make it easier to integrate therapy into busy lives while maintaining continuity of support from licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English