About Shelia
Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices in North Carolina.
She listens first and asks straightforward questions to understand what’s causing day-to-day strain. Her work tends to be warm and practical. She helps people name symptoms, learn coping skills, and try new ways of handling stress.
She uses clear strategies from cognitive behavioral methods and skills from dialectical behavior approaches while keeping sessions centered on each person's goals.
Background and approach
Clients often bring problems like anxiety, depression, anger, grief, or challenges with addiction. Dr. Collins also addresses issues related to caregiving stress, multicultural concerns, trauma and post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, and attention difficulties such as ADHD.
She frames questions in plain terms and offers step-by-step practices to try between sessions. She has experience across inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, and residential substance treatment settings. That background shapes a flexible approach to short-term problem solving and longer-term skill building.
Sessions focus on practical tools - thought work, behavior experiments, emotion regulation skills, and relapse prevention when needed. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. She outlines options, checks what feels useful, and adapts strategies over time.
The first steps are a short intake and a plan based on what matters most to the client.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first and focuses on listening, understanding, and reflecting what matters to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and decide which changes they want to try.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches practical experiments and exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These tools can help with intense emotions, impulse challenges, and relationship stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals, try specific techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills to focus on and how fast to move.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick updates, brief coping coaching, and flexible check-ins between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, North Carolina, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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