Scheherazade Collins, LMFT

Scheherazade Collins is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and invites clients to use their strengths to face worries and life changes. Her work often addresses depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns. She blends talk therapy with behavioral tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try different actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy supplies skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness practices are used to build moment-to-moment awareness and calm. Collins also has experience working with eating and food-related issues, addictions, and attention challenges such as ADHD. She has worked with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, and those coping with career transitions or burnout. Her background includes support for gender dysphoria, LGBT concerns, and needs specific to young adults and women. In addition to talk therapy, she has provided QEEG-guided neurofeedback in clinical settings to address attention and mood symptoms and to support peak performance for athletes and performers. She has also completed HeartMath certification for stress management approaches. As a former professional ballerina, she brings familiarity with high-pressure careers and performance anxiety. Sessions typically focus on practical skills - breathing and grounding, behavior experiments, goal planning, and pacing - so people can use what they learn between meetings.