Welcome. I'm Colleen Bergren.
Counseling allows for a healthy space to process, discover, grow, and even reinvent the way we encounter everyday barriers.
The feeling of hopelessness and shame can often weigh down the ability to complete day to day tasks. Taking the steps towards counseling can be scary and feel intrusive. However, there are ways to achieve a new perspective and approach to the everyday tasks or interactions which now feel overwhelming. I look to help clients identify, motivate, and generalize new tools that match to their comfort level. In the ability to partner with my clients, I look to support the identification of achievable and tangible goals. The capitalization of your ability to cope with emotional distress and explore the processes independently is what I encourage.
I am licensed in Mental Health Counseling. I specialize in family counseling, crisis counseling, and life transition counseling.
I have worked with in-crisis populations of children, pre-teens, adolescents, and adults in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, and Kingston, Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties, and throughout New York State.
For 9 years I have provided in home, community based, crisis interventions to the most at-risk populations utilizing a dynamic approach. Prior to this is worked in similar preventative or residential based programs. I have worked with a range of consumers to include one-on-one, family, group, and couples utilizing a dynamic approach. The training underneath the models which I have been trained, has allowed my approach to counseling to be at the pace needed, to push through the barriers identified, and to do so in a way that is sustainable.
Treatment Modalities/Specializations
bullet points of the methods you use
• Trauma Focused
• Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
• Family/ Marital
• Psychodynamic
• Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
• Forensic Therapy
• Person-Centered
• Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
• Strength-Based
• Play Therapy
• PTSD
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Coping Skills
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Grief, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Antisocial Personality, Attachment issues, Blended Family Issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Communication problems, Control issues, Dependent Personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Mood disorders , Multicultural Concerns, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality Disorders, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and Discrimination, Self-Harm, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Trichotillomania, Women's issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
NY LMHC 011162