- Sleep and rest support
- Performance coaching
- Anxiety and mood
About Scheherazade
Scheherazade Collins is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her, building on each client’s strengths to address sleep, stress, anxiety, and related concerns. Her background includes work with people aiming to improve performance, manage mood challenges, or find steadier routines.
She blends practical strategies with thoughtful listening. Clients learn skills for calming anxious thoughts, shifting unhelpful behavior patterns, and improving sleep and daily rhythms. Scheherazade uses evidence-informed tools like cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered communication to shape plans that fit everyday life.
Her past work includes supporting people in high-stress professions and performers who need reliable focus and recovery tools. That experience informs how she helps clients build routines, manage performance pressure, and cope after setbacks. She also has experience addressing eating and food-related issues, attention challenges, mood disorders, and grief.
Scheherazade’s approach often incorporates mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and strengthen concentration. She draws from dialectical behavior strategies when clients need concrete emotion-regulation skills. Sessions aim to be practical, with clear steps clients can try between meetings.
If someone needs help with sleep patterns, anxiety, or getting unstuck, Scheherazade works to create a collaborative plan. She encourages small, manageable changes and tracks what helps most over time.
Approaches that help sleep, focus, and anxiety
Client-centered therapy is about listening first and tailoring the work to each person. It helps people feel heard and builds on what already works in their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and routines influence sleep and mood and teaches concrete steps to change those patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance that can be useful when anxiety or intense feelings disrupt rest.Choosing the best approach is part of the early sessions. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily demands. That might mean mixing mindfulness practices, CBT tools for sleep and worry, and DBT skills for managing strong emotions.
Confirm the therapist’s current online session options before booking since formats are not specified in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find virtual sessions helpful for keeping momentum between in-person commitments and for trying strategies that translate into daily routines.
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Experience
12+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Scheherazade helps people with stress, anxiety, sleep issues, eating and food-related concerns, attention challenges, mood disorders, grief, relationship strain, and work or performance pressures.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a client-centered style focused on listening and building on strengths, combined with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches and mindfulness exercises.
How much clinical experience does she bring?
She has 12 years of professional experience working with people across stress, attention, mood, and performance-related issues.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and practices there.
Which languages are offered and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the profile.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist factors; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session according to the therapist’s availability.