- Warm collaborative care
- Goal focused steps
- Skill building focus
About Colleen
Colleen Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and related concerns like codependency and attachment issues. Colleen brings a warm, supportive manner to sessions and partners with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of acceptance and commitment work. Sessions often include goal setting, skill practice, and steps people can use between meetings to handle difficult moments.
Colleen has worked with people facing grief, parenting strain, eating and body-image concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those navigating life changes, relationship struggles, and issues tied to abandonment or isolation. Her experience includes helping people who have experienced abuse and those coping with ADHD-related challenges.
She adapts her style to each person, drawing on attachment-based ideas and dialectical behavior strategies when they fit. Colleen emphasizes respect, empathy, and sensitivity in every conversation. She aims to make progress feel steady and realistic rather than rushed.
If someone is thinking about starting therapy, she encourages taking a small step - answer the matching questions and then schedule a first session. That initial meeting is used to clarify goals and plan next steps together.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and learning new skills to change behavior and mood. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical tools and exercises. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling secure.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often blend techniques so clients learn skills while also addressing deeper patterns over time.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it can save travel time, allow shorter check-ins on a weekday, and make it simpler to keep appointments during work breaks or childcare windows. Licensed professionals can still teach and coach skills, review homework, and help plan gradual changes in everyday life through remote sessions.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
14+ years
Credentials
Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns are addressed here?
Colleen helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship strain, codependency, eating and body-image concerns, parenting stress, and related issues.
What is her general therapy style?
She uses a warm, supportive, and collaborative style that focuses on concrete goals and step-by-step progress.
What experience does she bring?
She has 14 years of counseling experience working with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, ADHD challenges, and relationship issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credential Licensed Professional Counselor, abbreviated LPC, and practices in Oregon.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.