Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins, LPC, LCPC

Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins is a licensed counselor with 18 years of experience in behavioral health. She is based in North Carolina and holds the credentials LPC and LCPC. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, mood problems, and trauma.

She uses a person-centered style that puts the client's concerns first. That means she listens and helps people tell their story before suggesting steps forward. She often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to guide practical change.

Her background includes work in inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient clinics, community mental health, and residential substance treatment settings. That range of experience informs how she approaches crisis, relapse prevention, and longer-term recovery work. She also focuses on issues like communication problems, caregiver stress, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic exercise.

Sessions typically begin with the concerns people bring right now. She helps identify goals, develop coping strategies, and build skills for day-to-day life. Expect clear, straightforward steps and chances to practice new ways of thinking and behaving between meetings.

People often come for help with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, bipolar mood swings, ADHD, or compassion fatigue. Dr. Collins aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and can work toward measurable change.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist creates space for someone to tell their story and then helps set goals based on what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for strong emotions and relationship strain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges come up.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people practice skills in the settings where their daily life happens, and it can make continuity possible if relocation or travel occurs. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and DBT exercises for remote sessions so skill-building and relapse prevention continue between meetings.