Scheherazade Collins

Scheherazade Collins is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California who uses mindfulness-based work as a core part of her practice. She draws on client-centered conversation and practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, and focus-related challenges. She has 12 years of experience and frames therapy as a collaboration where the person’s own strengths guide progress.

Collins combines mindfulness with straightforward skills from cognitive behavioral approaches to reduce worry and build better daily routines. She also uses tools drawn from dialectical behavior ideas to help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships. Sessions focus on teaching concrete skills and practicing them between meetings.

Her background includes extensive work with attention and performance issues, including neurofeedback applications and sport psychology techniques. That work informs how she supports people pursuing peak performance, whether in athletics, the arts, or other high-pressure fields. She pays attention to practical performance skills alongside emotional work.

Collins has additional experience with eating and food-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue. She also supports clients facing life transitions, career decisions, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and parenting stresses. Her approach aims to match techniques to each person’s situation.

Clients can expect a mix of listening, skill teaching, and in-session practice. Collins encourages small, manageable steps that fit into daily life. She invites people to begin by describing what matters most and then builds a plan that reflects their goals.

Mindfulness, skills training, and online care

Scheherazade Collins uses mindfulness therapy to help people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away by them, which can reduce reactivity and calm anxiety. Client-centered therapy is also central to her work and focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the person’s priorities so therapy fits their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build concrete behaviors that change daily routines and mood.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to identify what feels helpful and adjusts methods based on goals and preferences. That means trying different strategies in session and picking the ones that actually make day-to-day life easier.

The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make attending sessions easier by reducing travel, allowing shorter check-ins around busy schedules, or making it simpler to fit therapy into a workday or family routine. Therapists can also adapt mindfulness and skills practice for use between meetings so progress continues outside session time.