Colleen Tavor, LPC

Colleen Tavor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and anger. She brings 17 years of experience to conversations about distressing events and everyday pressures. Colleen’s approach is straightforward and supportive. She focuses on helping people feel heard and understood as they start therapy.

Colleen uses clear, practical methods to address symptoms and patterns that cause pain. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. She also uses trauma-focused techniques and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when trauma is a central issue.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect to talk about recent struggles, identify unhelpful thinking, and practice skills that reduce symptoms. The work typically includes setting small, manageable steps between meetings to build progress.

Colleen aims to create an atmosphere without judgment so clients can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. She encourages questions and shared decision-making about what to try in therapy. That collaborative tone helps people stay engaged when work feels hard.

Her experience includes supporting people dealing with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, workplace stress, domestic violence concerns, first responder issues, and women’s issues. Colleen offers care in English and practices from Michigan.

How CBT and Trauma Work Online

Colleen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits. CBT sessions online focus on practical skills, thought tracking, and short exercises to practice between meetings to reduce anxiety and manage stress.

She also draws on trauma-focused therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address distress from past events. Trauma-focused approaches help process difficult memories and reduce their emotional hold, while EMDR supports reprocessing troubling memories so they feel less intense over time.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Colleen collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and as priorities change.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or useful when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging support ongoing contact and brief check-ins between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy lives.