About Scheherazade
Scheherazade Collins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 12 years of experience. She combines practical skills with a collaborative, respectful style. She focuses on stress, anxiety, eating and food-related issues, attention and motivation, and phobias.
She centers sessions on the client's experience and strengths. That means clients talk about what matters most, and she helps shape steps that fit each life. Scheherazade uses techniques from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness approaches to make change feel doable.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with attention disorders, mood disorders, and autism spectrum challenges in clinical settings. She has also used QEEG-guided neurofeedback and HeartMath methods as part of broader treatment plans. Those experiences inform how she tailors strategies for focus, mood, and stress regulation.
She has a particular interest in peak performance and working with people in high-pressure roles. As a former professional ballerina, she understands performance anxiety, rigorous schedules, and the demands of elite training. That perspective shapes practical tools for coping, recovery, and goal-focused work.
Sessions typically include skill practice, brief homework, and checks on what is or isn’t helping. Scheherazade aims to help clients build steady skills for daily life, whether the goal is managing panic or improving sleep and self-esteem. She supports steps toward clearer routines and calmer reactions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and performance support
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's goals and strengths. The therapist listens carefully and helps shape plans that match what the client values and wants to change. This approach is helpful for stress, self-esteem, and deciding practical next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches ways to spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety, panic, and mood problems. It uses clear exercises and short homework tasks to build new habits for sleep, panic reduction, and eating concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills add concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving daily routines. Techniques include distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that support people under high pressure or facing frequent overwhelm.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels most useful. Together they decide which tools to emphasize and how to pace the work.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work or training schedules and to try approaches without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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