Dr. Christina Collins

Dr. Christina Collins is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who has worked in clinical practice since 2009. She sees adults for concerns ranging from anxiety and depression to grief and relationship challenges. Her background includes supporting people facing serious physical health issues, including cancer, and helping them adjust and grieve.

She brings an empathic, attuned presence to sessions and focuses on helping people reconnect with their own inner experience. Clients are invited to notice feelings and patterns that shape choices. Conversations aim to build a clearer sense of direction and self-relationship.

Her approach blends several models that emphasize emotions and relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is used to look at how emotions affect connection with others. Attachment-Based work examines early bonds and how they influence present relationships. Client-Centered elements keep the person's experience at the center of the process.

Dr. Collins trained at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (BA) and earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Appalachian State University. She also has further work in expressive arts therapy, somatic experiencing, and emotional neglect.

Sessions are practical and experiential at times, using activities or gentle body awareness when helpful. The aim is to develop clearer self-understanding, improve relationships, and find workable steps forward in life and career matters.

Emotion and Attachment Work Online

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people look at how early bonds affect current relationships and sense of safety in close connections. It can be useful for relationship stress, abandonment concerns, and attachment issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and shifting emotion patterns that shape how people relate to others and to themselves, which is often helpful for intimacy and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's experience and perspective, creating space to explore values, identity, and life direction.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they can try different ways of working and adjust the focus as needs change.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which online formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow regular check-ins during workday breaks or on evenings. They can also make it simpler to continue care during life transitions, while still allowing experiential or mindfulness practices to be included when helpful.