About Colleen
Colleen Tretton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, and struggles around relationships and intimacy. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical change. Her approach includes paying attention to how the body holds experience as well as what the mind tells you.
Many clients first notice irritability, trouble sleeping, or a loss of interest in things they once enjoyed. Others find themselves relying on substances or repetitive behaviors to feel okay.
Background and approach
Colleen uses a mind-body perspective to help people notice those patterns and begin to make small, doable shifts. Sessions blend body-focused work with tools from cognitive-behavioral and skills-based therapies. She uses techniques to help people calm dysregulated reactions and to test out new ways of thinking and acting in daily life.
Mindfulness and brief solution-focused strategies are used to set clear, achievable steps forward. Colleen has nine years of experience working with issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, family of origin concerns, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with sexual assault, first responder stress, social anxiety, and addiction-related struggles.
Her style aims to be direct and compassionate. Colleen helps people notice sensations in the body, link them to feelings and thoughts, and practice alternatives. The goal is to reduce the hold of painful material so people can reconnect with themselves and others.
How somatic and skills-based therapies work online
Colleen often blends Somatic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Somatic Therapy focuses on how the body holds stress and trauma and uses attention to breath, posture, and bodily sensations to reduce overwhelm. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical experiments and homework. DBT adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about what feels helpful and adjust methods over time. Clients and the therapist work together to mix body-focused practices, thought work, and skills that match the client's goals and daily life needs.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes therapy flexible for busy schedules. These formats allow for regular check-ins, in-the-moment coaching, and practice between sessions. That flexibility helps people try tools in real settings and bring observations back to the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English