Katie Collins

**Accepting teen/adult female clients only at this time.**

I’m a licensed therapist and founder of a private practice built around helping people create meaningful, lasting change, not just short-term relief. My background includes working with teen and adult women navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, and deeply ingrained behavioral and emotional patterns.

My work is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with a strong emphasis on understanding the biology and evolution of the human brain. I help clients make sense of how their nervous system, thoughts, and emotional responses were shaped—and how those patterns show up in daily life as habits that may no longer serve them.

I also integrate radical responsibility and mindful self-compassion into my work. That means we don’t stay stuck in blame or avoidance, but we also don’t approach change through shame. Instead, we build awareness, ownership, and the capacity to respond to yourself and your life differently.

While I’m direct and engaged in the work, I’m also laid back and less formal in my style. I believe therapy can be both meaningful and productive and have moments of lightness, humor, and real human connection along the way.

I work best with clients who are ready to look inward, challenge themselves, and actively participate in the process of change.

My approach is structured, insight-oriented, and grounded in CBT, while expanding beyond it to include education on how the brain and nervous system influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

I help clients understand why they think, feel, and act the way they do—through the lens of brain-based patterns and learned responses—and then work with them to intentionally shift those patterns. Therapy is not just about insight, but about applying that insight in real, practical ways.

Two core components of my work are radical responsibility and mindful self-compassion. I support clients in taking ownership of their patterns and choices, while also developing a more regulated, non-judgmental relationship with themselves. This balance is what allows change to be both sustainable and meaningful.

I’m collaborative and active in session, but not overly clinical or rigid. I aim to create an environment that feels grounded, engaging, and even enjoyable at times, because meaningful work doesn’t have to feel heavy all the time.

I will guide, challenge, and support you so that therapy becomes a space where real movement happens.

Our first session together is focused on building a clear understanding of you: what’s bringing you in, the patterns you’re noticing, and what you want to change.

I’ll ask thoughtful, targeted questions to begin identifying how your current challenges may be connected to underlying thought patterns, emotional responses, and nervous system habits. You can expect both space to share your story and structure to help organize what’s been feeling overwhelming or unclear.

While the session is intentional and focused, it’s also conversational and relaxed. My goal is for you to feel comfortable being yourself while we start doing meaningful work together.

I’ll also begin introducing how I conceptualize your concerns through a CBT and brain-based lens, so you can start to see your experiences in a new, more understandable way.

By the end of the session, you should have a clearer sense of how I work, what we would focus on moving forward, and whether this feels like the right fit.

My goal is for you to leave feeling both understood and grounded in a direction for change.