Dr. Brittany L. Collins, LPCC-S, CMPC, BC-TMH, NCC completed her Ph.D. in 2022 in Counselor Education and Supervision with a Multicultural and Social Justice Cognate and was awarded Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year. Other awards include receiving the Emerging Leader award from the American College Counselors Association (ACCA) in 2018- 2019.
Dr. Collins identifies as a third culture and former military kid. Her father and grandfather both served in the Air Force, which afforded her rich cultural development by being born in England, attending Kindergarten through 3rd grade in Japan, and then moving to Korea and Hawaii before her family settled in Ohio. She is licensed to practice as a Professional Clinical Counselor and Clinical Supervisor in the state of Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky as well as licensed to practice as a Professional counselor in the State of Texas. She is a National Certified Counselor, Board Certified Tele-Mental Health provider, Certified Youth Sports Administrator (CYSA), and Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) as well as CMPC Mentor. She received her M.S.Ed in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Dayton in 2016 as well as an M.S. in Sport Sciences in 2003. Furthermore, she completed her B.S. in Sports Sciences from Ohio University in 2002 where she also was awarded a full athletic scholarship and was a member of the women’s basketball team. Her clinical experience includes almost 10 years as an in-school therapist, outpatient therapist, residential treatment therapist, college counselor, and individual and team counselor for high school, collegiate, and professional athletes.
She is trained in Motivational Interviewing and 7 Challenges, a comprehensive counseling program for young people that incorporates work on alcohol and other drug problems. Her research and interests focus on high-performing, high impact individuals, including physicians, healthcare providers, military personnel, first responders, athletes, teens, and young adults, regarding multicultural concerns, intersecting identities, racial stressors, grief, and transition. Furthermore, her passions include identity, racebased stress, self-awareness, identity development, developmental trauma, depression, anxiety, career development, and overall well-being.
Brittany works from a holistic, multicultural, humanistic, strengths-based approach while incorporating narrative therapy and the ecological perspective in practice.
