Scheherazade Collins, LMFT

Scheherazade brings a calm, focused style and twelve years of experience in therapeutic work in California. She believes people know their stories and already carry resources they can use.

In sessions she listens closely, helps clarify goals, and offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. Those tools include simple behavior changes, thought work, and grounding practices that fit into daily life.

Scheherazade has worked with people facing mood disorders, grief, trauma and addiction issues, as well as with those navigating gender dysphoria or LGBT concerns. She also supports people dealing with career strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and relationship or intimacy-related worries.

Her background includes work with eating and food-related issues and first responder stress. Her prior roles included work at an attention and learning center where she saw many adults and children with attention and mood concerns.

That experience informed her interest in peak performance and mental skills training for people in demanding roles. She also holds HeartMath certification for stress management and has used QEEG-guided neurofeedback approaches in her clinical work.

Scheherazade aims to help people build coping skills and regain confidence. She works collaboratively to choose practical steps that fit each person's life and momentum.

If someone wants tools for performance, focus, or everyday coping, she helps create a clear plan and checks progress along the way.