Jonathan Collins
Compassionate, practical counseling for everyday family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jonathan
Jonathan Collins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. He uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on clear, practical steps parents and adults can use. He aims to make conversations direct and respectful so people feel understood.
Jonathan has 14 years of clinical experience and has worked in many settings. He has provided care in college counseling centers, vocational counseling, community mental health, inpatient residential treatment, and psychiatric hospitalization.
Background and approach
He has led both psychoeducational and process groups. That background informs how he structures sessions and homework for real life challenges. Jonathan draws from several evidence-based methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), client-centered therapy, and the Gottman Method.
He mixes those approaches to match each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method. Areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and parenting. Additional topics he addresses include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, communication problems, and coping with major life changes.
He also supports work-related challenges like career stress and compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to build practical skills for day-to-day life. Jonathan helps clients set goals, practice new ways of coping, and track progress.
He emphasizes collaboration and tailors plans to each individual’s priorities.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It often focuses on accepting difficult feelings while committing to meaningful behavior changes and can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills, which is useful for stress, OCD tendencies, and mood concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. It is practical for intense emotions, relationship strain, and managing impulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jonathan collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. He adjusts techniques over time based on progress and feedback so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. That flexibility makes it easier to practice skills between meetings and to check in when needed. Many people find being able to connect from home helps them stay consistent and apply what they learn to daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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