Colleen Duncan, LPC

Colleen Duncan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, addiction issues, grief, parenting strain, and relationship concerns. Colleen aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can set concrete goals and take practical steps forward.

Her work often centers on short-term problem solving and clear strategies people can use between sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside acceptance-based and attachment-focused ideas to help people change unhelpful thinking and build healthier patterns. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs that day.

Colleen describes her style as warm and supportive. She emphasizes collaboration and helps clients break big problems into manageable steps. She also brings skills drawn from dialectical and client-centered approaches when situations call for them.

Over her career she has supported people dealing with trauma, eating and body-image struggles, intimacy-related issues, codependency, caregiver stress, and life transitions. She also helps with concerns like abandonment, isolation, and questions of life purpose or self-love.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The practice uses a cancelable subscription model for sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules time according to the therapist's availability.

Approaches that guide online counseling

Colleen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers clear strategies and practice tasks that can reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful coping like substance use.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take committed action even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for coping with grief, chronic stress, and living with persistent anxiety.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, pace, and preferences. That process may shift over time as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier. Video is good for full-session talk work and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.