Colleen Overholt, LMFT

Colleen Overholt is a licensed marriage and family therapist with long experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, ADHD, and related everyday challenges. She works with concerns like sleep problems, parenting strain, relationship and family conflict, anger, career stress, and coping with big life changes. Colleen uses straightforward language and a practical focus when meeting with people. She invites clients to name goals and to shape the work together.

Colleen holds a California LMFT credential and has worked in many clinical and community settings. Her background includes roles as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, program manager, and director in schools, clinics, and community programs. That range of experience informs how she structures sessions and follows up between meetings.

Her style is empathic and down-to-earth. She provides structure and guidance while responding to each person’s needs. Colleen encourages people to build on strengths they already have and to practice new everyday habits and thought patterns that make daily life easier.

Colleen often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts. She also uses mindfulness and client-centered methods to increase self-awareness and resilience. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas may be added when they fit a person’s goals.

She believes the working relationship matters most and aims to be engaged and affirming. Prospective clients are invited to consider what they hope to change and to talk openly about what will help them get there.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. It helps people feel heard and to identify what matters most to them, which then guides practical steps forward. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at everyday thoughts and habits and teaches ways to notice and change patterns that make stress or anxiety worse. That method is useful for mood, anxiety, sleep, and many daily challenges. Mindfulness therapy offers simple practices to increase attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity, which supports coping with grief, trauma reminders, and chronic stress.

Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to try methods that match their goals, adjust when something isn’t helping, and combine techniques as needed. The relationship and ongoing feedback guide what gets emphasized in sessions.

For practical details about online work, please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a fast check-in is helpful. Some approaches, such as CBT and mindfulness, adapt well to remote sessions because they use concrete exercises and homework that can be reviewed together. Ask about session length and timing to find an arrangement that fits everyday life.