Derrick Collins
Experienced therapist focused on family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Derrick
Derrick Collins helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, family struggles, parenting challenges, and relationship problems. He also supports those facing depression, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. Derrick brings a calm, conversational style to sessions and keeps language simple and direct.
He is licensed as a professional counselor (LPC) and has nearly three decades of experience. Clients can expect a focused, interactive talk in which the therapist guides the session without pushing beyond what feels comfortable.
Background and approach
Derrick borrows ideas from several therapy approaches to match the moment and the person. He aims to be practical and straightforward while remaining respectful and nonjudgmental. Derrick uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors.
He also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand and improve important relationships. Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear goals and build steps toward them. With 29 years of practice, Derrick has worked with a wide range of presenting concerns including self-esteem, career issues, intimacy-related problems, eating and process addictions, anger, and coping with life changes.
He also addresses communication problems, control issues, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and identity. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Georgia. Derrick values steady progress over quick fixes and partners with people to find realistic strategies they can use outside of sessions.
How Derrick Uses Approaches Online
Derrick blends evidence-based methods into online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that worsen mood and anxiety; it is useful for stress, depression, and low motivation. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on how emotions shape relationships and helps people improve connection and communication. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and clear goals to build momentum and solve immediate problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Derrick will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest techniques that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are an option when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins and ongoing encouragement. These formats provide flexibility and let people engage in therapy in ways that work for their schedule and comfort.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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