Shira Collings

LPC, LMHC, LCPC

• Pennsylvania, Licensed Professional Counselor, PC016118
• New Jersey, Licensed Professional Counselor, 37PC01057200
• Washington, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LH61574225
• Nevada, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, CP5932-R
• Oregon, Licensed Professional Counselor, C10055

My journey as a therapist has always been rooted in a deep belief in people’s capacity to heal, especially when they’re met with care, curiosity, and a sense of safety. In graduate school, I interned at two private practices—one focused on trans-affirming mental health, and the other on eating disorder recovery. Both experiences shaped my understanding of how essential it is to offer therapy that not only supports individual healing but also affirms and honors people’s identities. After graduate school, I joined a group practice specializing in eating disorder treatment that centers LGBTQ+ clients and embraces a neurodiversity-affirming approach. I worked with people navigating complex relationships with food and body image, always with an awareness of how systems like fatphobia, ableism, and cisnormativity show up in those struggles. Over time, I found myself increasingly drawn to reproductive mental health—supporting people through the tender, transformative, and often complicated experiences of abortion, pregnancy loss, infertility, parenthood, and choosing to be childfree. I’ve since opened my own practice, where I bring all of these threads together. Across all of these roles, the heart of my work has been feminist therapy: helping people understand how systems of oppression impact their mental health, and supporting them in reclaiming their voices, needs, and desires. I strive to offer a space that is compassionate, affirming, and nonjudgmental—where you don’t have to explain the basics of your identity or experiences, and where healing can feel like coming home to yourself.