Scheherazade Collins, LMFT

Scheherazade Collins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She draws on a varied background that includes work with stress, anxiety, eating and food-related issues, attention and motivation challenges, self-esteem concerns, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and grief, and performance-related struggles. Scheherazade approaches each person as the expert of their own story, building on existing strengths to address the problems that feel most urgent.

Her practice includes extensive work with QEEG-guided Neurofeedback, a brain-training method she has used for more than a decade to address attention disorders, mood-related conditions, and autism spectrum presentations, as well as to support elite athletes and performing artists seeking peak performance. She served as a primary therapist at Linden’s Attention Learning Center, where she treated hundreds of adults and children and refined her clinical use of neurofeedback. She also completed additional training under the guidelines of the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance and holds certification as a HeartMath Certified Practitioner for stress management.

As a former professional ballerina with training in sport psychology, Scheherazade has a particular interest in high-stress professions, elite performers, and those navigating career transitions or injury recovery. Her work spans practical skills like mental skills training and coping strategies to deeper therapeutic concerns such as trauma, intimacy-related issues, and mood disorders. She offers a collaborative, strengths-based approach to help clients meet their goals and improve functioning across work, relationships, and everyday life.

Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy supports them

Scheherazade Collins integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into her work. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building on each person’s strengths so clients feel understood and empowered to direct their own change; it is helpful for stress, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical strategies for anxiety, mood disorders, panic, and many forms of avoidance or compulsive patterns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Scheherazade partners with clients to clarify goals, try methods that match individual needs, and adjust plans as progress unfolds. Together they choose techniques that fit the client’s preferences and the challenges they want to address.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in that collaboration. Sessions by video or phone let clients have real-time conversations and skills practice, while live chat or text-based messaging can provide shorter, on-the-go support between appointments. These options make it easier to balance therapy with work, school, family, and performance schedules while maintaining ongoing contact with licensed professionals and therapists who guide the process.