Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins, LPC, LCPC

Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins is a licensed counselor with 18 years of experience who works with adults facing a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. She holds the credentials LPC and LCPC - terms that indicate she is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - and she practices from North Carolina. Her approach centers on listening carefully to each person and helping them give voice to their concerns as a first step toward change.

Her work spans stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and mood disorders, and she also supports clients dealing with relationship and family conflicts, grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include caregiver stress, communication problems, drug and alcohol addiction, multicultural concerns, post-traumatic stress, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic sexual behaviors. She integrates practical skills and evidence-informed strategies to address both acute crises and long-term patterns.

Dr. Shelia Williamson Collins favors a person-centered counseling stance and commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help clients build coping skills, manage emotions, and reduce problematic behaviors. She emphasizes collaboration and will work with clients to set goals and determine a session cadence that meets their needs, including accommodating requests for weekly sessions when possible.