About John
John Collins is an LCSW with 18 years of clinical experience helping people address both surface symptoms and deeper sources of distress.
Background and approach
He draws on a psychodynamic foundation to explore patterns that maintain anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, grief, and relationship difficulties, and he integrates targeted interventions to update coping skills. He is certified to provide EMDR when it is appropriate for trauma-related concerns.
His approach is warm and personal, focused on making clients feel genuinely understood and supported while working toward clear goals. Sessions aim to strengthen communication, address issues such as low self-esteem or control problems, and tackle practical challenges like substance use, intimacy concerns, or life transitions.
Based in Louisiana, he offers tailored care that can range from shorter-term problem-focused work to longer-term therapy for deeper change.
Online Approaches and How They Help
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration, helping people feel heard while exploring their priorities and building coping abilities; it is often useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses structured processing to address distressing memories and reduce trauma-related symptoms when appropriate for the client's needs. Psychodynamic Therapy explores recurring patterns, past influences, and unconscious themes to support longer-term shifts in mood, relationships, and self-understanding.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and symptom patterns with each client and collaboratively decide whether a client-centered focus, EMDR, psychodynamic exploration, or a blend of methods best matches the presenting needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult. These formats support flexibility in scheduling and allow licensed professionals to provide ongoing care, tailoring interaction style and tools to suit the client’s situation and therapeutic goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana
- Languages
- English