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Melissa Collins, LPC, LMHC

Stress, Anxiety Trauma, Abuse Grief Self esteem, Motivation Depression
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About me

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor with 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. I specialize in counseling children, adolescents, and adult who have been victims of crime. I also work with behavioral issues, relationship issues between parents and children (RAD), adoption issues, divorce issues, issues related to parental use of drugs and alcohol, and I offer parental guidance. With adults and adolescents, I also offer counseling on addiction, depression, anxiety, divorce, and mental health concerns.
I have been a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor since 2000. I use multiple trauma focused therapies including Eye-Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing, Thought Field Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I am a Certified Mediator and I do work with immigration including: Hardship Waivers, N-648s, and U-visas.
I am an immigration approved therapist and I perform psychological evaluations for immigration and for court. I also administer assessments for depression, anxiety, ADHD, and Substance abuse. I accept BCBS, Cigna, and Crime Victim's Compensation for those who qualify.
I am also a Certified Hypnotist and provide hypnosis for quit smoking, weight loss, motivation, and various other mental health difficulties.

Professional experience

30yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Trauma, Abuse Grief Self esteem, Motivation Depression

Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Antisocial Personality, Attachment Issues, Body Image, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Chronic Pain Illness and Disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Control Issues, Dependent Personality, Dissociation, Divorce and Separation, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Emptiness, Expats, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Gender Dysphoria, Guilt and Shame, Hearing Impaired, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Immigration Issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual Disability, Isolation / Loneliness, Jealousy, Life Purpose, Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Money and Financial Issues, Mood Disorders, Multicultural Concerns, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Paranoia, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Polyamory / Nonmonogamous Relationships, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic Stress, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Prejudice and Discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-Harm, Self-Love, Sex Addiction, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Sexual Dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking/Vaping Cessation, Social Anxiety and Phobia, Trichotillomania, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues, Young Adult Issues

Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Services offered

Video
Phone
Live Chat
Messaging

Languages

EnglishSpanish

License information

TX LPC 63513

WA LMHC LH61263346

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Melissa Collins. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.

Melissa is very knowledgeable, patient and cares about her patients.

Written on Feb 18, 2023 after therapy with Melissa for 8 months on issues concerning relationship issues, and family conflicts

Writing this at the end of a year where my partner and I began our exploration into ethical non-monogamy and I realized I had a lot of unresolved issues with anxiety and jealousy that I wasn't managing well at the time. Melissa was a great resource for me to get my feelings out about what I was experiencing and was able to offer other tools for me to help manage said anxieties about opening up the relationship. That was back towards maybe August or so, and wrapping up the year in December, I am feeling much more confident in my choices. I feel I have better tools to manage myself when a wave of anxiety washes over me. Melissa was a great person to talk to through these past several months and i was able to feel heard and validated in what I was experiencing, as well as being appropriately told when I was perhaps being unfair to my partner and how I could discuss things with them.

This was my first time going to therapy, and I was very impressed with how Melissa was able to work with me when I needed her help.

Written on Dec 16, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue

Excellent therapist with intuitive understanding of a diverse set of issues, and a therapeutic toolset geared toward wellness and self-development over medication. 110% Reccommended!

Written on Dec 13, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd

Melissa helped me navigate some challanging relationships with loved ones who are addicts. She is compassionate, insitful and truly listens.

Written on Sep 23, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue

I really appreciated Melissa’s support. She was easy to talk to and it felt like she was asking me all the right questions, which helped me realize some of the habits I want to build or let go of. She shared a lot of helpful tips and resources that I’ve been appreciating as well. In four weeks, I already feel like I have several tools to manage my anxiety.

Written on Jul 10, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, intimacy-related issues, and eating disorders

I joined Better Help to help ease anxieties around returning to work in a more “normal” capacity. I was paired with Melissa and she was really great! She listens, helped me take a step back and look at the bigger picture, and encouraged me to let go of things I can’t (and shouldn’t) control.

Written on Jul 06, 2022 after therapy with Melissa for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety