About Colin
Colin Christman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Connecticut. He holds a Master of Social Work and brings five years of clinical experience to his work. Colin helps people facing trauma, eating concerns, depression, and major life changes.
He explains things plainly and focuses on what clients need now. Colin's background includes inpatient and residential intensive care settings. He has worked with severe behavioral health problems such as substance use, self-harm, suicidality, complex trauma, and eating disorders.
Background and approach
That experience shaped his approach to complicated or co-occurring conditions. His practice pays attention to how unmet emotional needs drive behavior. Colin looks for what is missing - safety, connection, identity, purpose, or structure - and how those gaps lead to harmful patterns.
He uses straightforward conversation to link current struggles with longer-term beliefs and habits. Colin describes his overall orientation as psychodynamic and draws on ideas from internal systems and relational theories. Treatment often involves identifying internal parts, tracking how past experiences shape present choices, and practicing new ways of relating to self and others.
Sessions are practical and focused on problem solving and understanding. Early work typically clarifies what matters to the client and what would feel different if things improved. From there, he helps people test new behaviors and shift beliefs that get in the way of their goals.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Colin works from a psychodynamic perspective that looks at how past relationships and experiences shape present behavior. This approach helps people understand why they repeat patterns and how early life events influence current choices. It is useful for depression, attachment concerns, and long-standing interpersonal issues.He also uses internal systems ideas which involve noticing different parts of a person’s inner life and how those parts interact. That method can help with conflicted feelings, self-criticism, and behaviors driven by inner voices. In addition, trauma-focused work concentrates on reducing the hold of painful memories and on building more reliable emotional responses after distressing events.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and life situation and then recommend options to try. Together you can adjust methods as progress unfolds and pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and therapeutic exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text let you check in more often and fit short sessions into a busy schedule. These formats make it easier to work on grief, trauma, eating concerns, and life transitions without traveling to an office.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English