About Jonathan
Jonathan Collins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth work that helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and phobias. His style is warm and interactive and aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable.
He has worked in college counseling, vocational services, community mental health, inpatient residential treatment, and psychiatric hospitalization. That range gives him experience with both short-term goals and longer recovery processes.
Background and approach
He has also led psychoeducational and process groups. Jonathan uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and the Gottman Method. He mixes these methods to match what each person needs rather than following a single script.
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and on small, realistic steps forward. Clients often bring concerns like attention challenges, addictions, grief, trauma, self-esteem struggles, sleep and eating issues, and life transitions. He also addresses relationship and intimacy challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, and parenting concerns in individual work.
The emphasis is on clear, concrete strategies and steady support. Jonathan speaks English and practices in Texas. He offers several remote session formats so people can pick what fits their schedule and comfort.
He encourages a collaborative process to build a plan that fits each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches for online work and real-life change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that align with their values. This approach is helpful for anxiety, avoiding behaviors, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic, depression, or phobic avoidance. It gives concrete tools to practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities, which can be valuable when exploring identity, grief, or self-esteem concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jonathan will collaborate to choose methods that match each person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. He mixes elements from different approaches when that better serves practical goals, and he checks in regularly to adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick touchpoints. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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