- Trauma and mood
- Eating and body image
- Coping after disaster
About Colin
Colin Christman is an LCSW practicing in Connecticut. He frames therapy around long-standing patterns and missing emotional needs. He asks straightforward questions about identity, values, and what would feel better in daily life.
He draws on five years of work in intensive care settings, mainly inpatient and residential programs. That experience means he has worked with severe behavioral health issues, including self-harm, suicidality, eating disorders, and substance use concerns. He has also supported people facing co-occurring trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, and complex behavioral problems.
Colin pays attention to how unmet emotional needs shape behavior. He talks about things like safety, connection, and purpose as the foundations people often lack. In sessions he helps people identify the beliefs and patterns that lead to painful feelings or actions, and then tries practical ways to shift those patterns.
He has experience addressing attachment and relationship difficulties, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and communication and commitment issues. He also works with body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and challenges connected to disruptive mood regulation.
Colin takes a thoughtful, psychodynamic-influenced approach that considers how past experiences affect current behavior. He meets people where they are and focuses on clear, manageable goals. For parents and caregivers reading on a phone, he aims to make the work direct and useful, one step at a time.
Approach-focused online work and practical support
Colin describes his work as psychodynamic in orientation, which means he pays attention to how past relationships and early experiences shape current behavior and feelings. This approach can help when unresolved attachment issues, abandonment concerns, or long-standing relationship patterns cause distress.He also uses trauma-informed ways of working that focus on understanding how traumatic or overwhelming events affect daily life. This helps people who are coping with trauma, abuse, or the emotional aftermath of disasters to name what happened and reduce its hold on their behavior.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. He will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Together you will decide which techniques fit your needs and day-to-day life.
The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, shorten travel time, and allow regular check-ins around work or caregiving responsibilities. It can also make some sessions simpler if less technology or a shorter check-in is preferable. If coping with natural or human-caused disaster is a concern, online sessions can support recovery work by maintaining continuity when routines are disrupted.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
5+ years
Credentials
Connecticut
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Colin address?
He works with depression, eating concerns, trauma and abuse, family-related stress, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include abandonment, attachment issues, body image, and disruptions in mood.
What is his general therapeutic style?
He uses a psychodynamic-influenced approach that focuses on how past experiences shape current behavior. The work emphasizes identifying missing emotional needs and changing unhelpful patterns.
What kind of clinical background does he have?
Colin has five years of experience, largely in intensive inpatient and residential behavioral health settings. That background includes work with severe presentations such as self-harm, suicidality, eating disorders, and substance use.
What credentials and where is he licensed?
He is an LCSW licensed in Connecticut.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English, and he accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.