Jon Collings
Helping parents change thoughts and choices
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jon
Jon Collings is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and feel better. He speaks plainly about emotions and choices so parents can make clear steps forward. He practices from Missouri and brings many years of experience to common family concerns.
His work focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, and parenting challenges. He also addresses family issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, coping with major life changes, codependency, and young adult issues.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify thought patterns and practical ways to change them. Jon has 27 years of experience as a psychotherapist and holds a Master of Social Work degree. He combines cognitive-behavioral tools with psychodynamic ideas to understand how past patterns influence present feelings.
That mix helps people change both the way they think and the long-standing patterns that keep problems recurring. In a typical session he helps clients set clear goals and teaches skills they can use between meetings. He explains concepts in everyday language and focuses on small, concrete steps.
The style is straightforward and results-oriented, while still making room to understand personal history. Parents reading this can expect direct guidance for parenting strains and relationship tensions. He works to make treatment practical so new skills can be used at home.
If someone wants a therapist who blends skill-building with understanding life history, this approach is designed for that purpose.
How CBT and Psychodynamic Work Online
Jon uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change the thoughts that lead to distress. CBT focuses on practical exercises and small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Psychodynamic Therapy helps explore how past relationships and early patterns shape current reactions and relationship struggles. This approach can be useful when problems keep recurring despite efforts to change.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Jon will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and daily life, then suggest options. Together they choose strategies that fit the client's needs and preferences and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls let people talk face-to-face from home, phone sessions provide a simple audio option, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or skill practice between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family life while still using CBT exercises and psychodynamic discussion.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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