Hello, I’m Dr. Elaine Collins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), certified by the State of Arizona and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. I am also a Transition Specialist and Certified Guided Imagery Therapist who has successfully counseled and coached hundreds of couples, individuals, families and corporate executives, focusing on effective communication, releasing negative emotions caused by stress and conflict as well as teaching relaxation and coping techniques to achieve optimum mental and physical health.
I serve on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). IAS is a non-profit organization providing mental health and continuing educational services and workshops for schools, churches, agencies, shelters, and communities. My private practice provides marriage counseling and relationship therapy throughout the East Valley. I look forward to serving you.
How I Can Help
Marriage Counseling
- Do you have a lack of communication regarding important matters?
- Are you experiencing significant differences in core values and beliefs?
- Is there a perceived lack of consideration or concern?
- Do you have trust issues?
Stress Management
- Is work-related stress causing problems at home?
- Are relationship issues leading to feelings of stress and anxiety?
- Is an unexpected career change causing stress and anxiety?
- Is a life stress, such as a loss of job or a move to a new home, causing anxiety or depression?
Family Therapy
- Are you having a hard time relating to your children as they reach the teenage years?
- Do you feel that you are battling daily to get your children to cooperate?
- Do you and your spouse have significant differences on how to discipline your children?
Grief Counseling
- Is a divorce or loss of a loved one causing emotional harm and leaving you feeling threatened or frightened?
- Are you having difficulty coping with a traumatic event, such as a severe injury or illness?
- Do you look in the mirror and wonder what happened to the person looking back at you?
An Introduction
What Clients Are Saying
Thank you Dr. Collins for all you have done for me and my wife! When my wife set up the appointment to come see you, I did not want to come. We had been to counseling in the past and I always walked out feeling worse about myself and my marriage and very beat up. Your “Positive Marriage Program” approach to therapy saved our marriage. I looked forward to coming to sessions with you. Not only has it saved our marriage, I feel that I know and understand more about myself, and personally am a much happier person. Thank You Again!
My wife and I were married for 15 years and had grown tired of having the same arguments over and over again and neither one of us was feeling very loved or appreciated. I was ready to move on and find some peace in my life. I talked with Dr. Collins and within a few weeks we were working on some core issues that were causing the arguments and began to understand that each of us felt loved in a different way. We both have worked at understanding our needs and communicating them to each other which has given our marriage a whole new life. Thank you, Dr. Collins.
When my husband and I went into see Dr. Collins, I was done with our marriage and just wanted someone to confirm it. After the first 4 sessions, I started to look at myself and my marriage in a different way. Dr. Collins worked with some old wounds we both had that triggered strong reactions that caused us to shut down to one another. Once we addressed and looked at the real issues we were able to communicate for the first time in a long time. Thank you, Dr. C., for sticking with us!
Dr. Collins saved our marriage! We stopped texting when we were angry, and learned how to argue effectively. We stop bringing up everything from our 6 years of marriage that made us feel misunderstood and focused on bringing up one thing at a time to resolve.
