Colleen Clark , MD, LCSW-C

Colleen Clark is a licensed clinician in Maryland with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She combines practical strategies with steady listening to make sessions feel straightforward and manageable for someone new to therapy.

She creates a calm space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Conversations focus on what matters most now and on small steps a person can try between sessions. Colleen emphasizes clear goals and real-world skills rather than jargon or long lectures.

Her background includes work across a range of relationship and life challenges. She supports people facing attachment and abandonment issues, blended family concerns, family-of-origin problems, and communication struggles. She also helps those dealing with body image, fertility-related stress, caregiver strain, and addictive behaviors.

Colleen uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based methods, and a client-centered style. Those tools are used to build coping skills, change unhelpful patterns, and strengthen emotional awareness. The exact mix is adjusted to fit each person's needs.

She offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To start, a person completes a short questionnaire and then schedules sessions based on the therapist's availability. The subscription service can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck. It can help with anxiety, low motivation, and decisions around parenting or life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and emotional responses, which can be helpful for attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, and chat or text can serve for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into work, childcare, or other daily demands.