About Colin
Colin Christman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Connecticut. He holds an LCSW and brings five years of experience supporting people facing complex behavioral health challenges. His work often centers on trauma, eating concerns, depression, family issues, and coping with life changes.
Colin’s background includes intensive care settings and residential programs where he helped people with severe behavioral health needs. That work exposed him to co-occurring trauma, personality and mood disorders, and conditions that can complicate recovery.
Background and approach
He is comfortable navigating complex presentations and safety-focused care when needed. In sessions, Colin draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat in a person’s life. He focuses on what’s missing emotionally - things like safety, connection, purpose, and structure - and how those gaps push someone toward harmful habits.
The conversation starts with simple questions: Who are you, and what matters to you? Therapy with him aims to uncover the beliefs behind painful emotions and unhelpful behavior. He helps people connect thoughts and feelings to real-life choices so they can move toward goals that match their values.
That work can address concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, body image, codependency, and caregiver stress. Colin offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Colin works from a psychodynamic perspective that examines recurring patterns in relationships and behavior. This approach helps people see how past experiences and internal beliefs shape current reactions and choices, which can be useful for depression, attachment issues, and patterns like codependency.He also emphasizes identifying emotional needs that are missing - safety, connection, purpose, and structure - and then exploring how those gaps lead to harmful habits. That practical focus helps when addressing trauma, eating issues, body image concerns, or caregiver stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try different ways of working and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging can provide short check-ins or ongoing written support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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