About Colleen
Colleen Larson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Missouri and has three years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate trauma, grief, parenting stress, depression, and major life changes. Colleen aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck.
She draws on a strengths-based, humanistic outlook. That means she looks for what already works for each person and builds from there.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on practical skills and clearer ways to cope, not on jargon or lengthy theory. Colleen also supports people facing adoption and foster care concerns, parenting through autism and Asperger Syndrome, and those processing guilt or shame. She works with people dealing with postpartum depression, struggles over life purpose, and young adult transitions.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Colleen helps clients set small, concrete goals and practices skills between meetings. She prefers short, focused conversations that fit into busy lives.
Colleen offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time. She works to create a steady, practical path forward for each person she meets.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Colleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques presented in simple, practical ways. One common approach focuses on identifying strengths and building skills that change daily routines and reactions. This helps with depression, grief, and adapting after trauma by giving clear steps to try between sessions.Another approach centers on a humanistic perspective, which prioritizes the person’s own goals and values. Sessions use conversation and reflection to uncover what matters most and to guide choices about next steps. This is useful when people are figuring out life purpose or managing guilt and shame.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Colleen will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and then recommend techniques that fit. The process is collaborative and can shift as goals change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation while staying in their own location, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messages are good for quick check-ins or shorter conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or school schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English