Colleen Overholt, LMFT

Colleen Overholt is a California-based LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), CA LMFT 32476, with 26 years of clinical experience. She has worked in a range of leadership and direct-service roles including Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Program Manager, Regional Director, and Executive Director across clinical and community programs.

Her work spans many settings - private practice, schools, clinics, and field-based programs - and includes support for individuals and families of all ages. Colleen has experience addressing depression, anxiety, phobias and OCD, self-esteem concerns, trauma and PTSD, homelessness, severe mental illness, and related challenges.

Colleen practices with an empathetic and client-directed stance, offering structure, guidance, and motivation as each person needs. She encourages clients to articulate their goals and preferences and focuses on identifying and amplifying individual strengths to support meaningful change and improved wellbeing.

Her clinical approach draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She frequently uses CBT techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns while integrating mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives when beneficial.

Colleen regards the therapeutic relationship as the cornerstone of growth and healing and aims to meet people where they are, engage attentively, and affirm each person’s dignity and worth throughout the therapeutic process.