she/her

Kristi CollinsLCSW

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Location

Virtual, California

Insurance Accepted

Anthem Blue Cross Of CA, Aetna, Health Net/MHN, Cigna/Evernorth, Blue Shield of California

Communication Style

Affirming, Exploratory, Holistic, Warm

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Focus areas

Anxiety, Burnout, Family Conflict, Grief, Life Transitions, Panic, Stress, Trauma, Women's Issues

Experienced with

Parents, Veterans, First responders, Students

Years of Experience

4+

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I work to foster a non-judgmental space for therapy that can allow for vulnerability and honesty.

License number

#96003

Therapy style

I find it so rewarding to work together with someone on exploring, acknowledging, adapting, accepting, reprocessing, and moving through challenges. Therapy is a highly individualized process: It can be about bringing awareness to challenges you're experiencing and giving you the skills and insight you need to change how you interact with them, and it can also be about reprocessing distressing events so as to be able to move past them. I work to foster a non-judgmental space for therapy that can allow for vulnerability and honesty. I am trained in and draw from CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, and EMDR.

Approaches

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Psychodynamic

Languages Spoken

English

Education

BA - Biology, University of California, Berkeley MSW - Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College Certificate - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), EMDR Institute

Interests

Spending time outdoors - hiking, camping, traveling, sometimes swimming (if it's warm enough!)