Scheherazade Collins, LMFT

Scheherazade Collins is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience. As an LMFT - which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - she combines traditional therapeutic approaches with specialized neurofeedback and stress management techniques to support people facing a broad range of concerns, from stress and anxiety to eating issues, attention challenges, and performance-related goals.

She has extensive experience using QEEG-guided neurofeedback to address symptoms across diagnoses and to help clients seeking advanced strategies for enhanced performance in elite sports and the performing arts. Her work as a primary therapist at Linden’s Attention Learning Center involved treating hundreds of adults and children, where she observed neurofeedback as a useful adjunct for attention disorders, mood challenges, and autism spectrum presentations. Her training follows guidelines from the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, and she is a HeartMath Certified Practitioner for stress management.

Drawing on a background as a former professional ballerina and additional training in sport psychology, she brings a particular focus on peak performance, mental skills training, and managing performance anxiety. Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based techniques. Scheherazade works with people in high-stress roles, elite performers, gifted youth, and individuals navigating career transitions, athletic injury recovery, grief, trauma, relationship issues, and other life changes.

She emphasizes the client as the expert of their own story and builds on existing strengths to develop practical coping skills, enhance motivation and attention, and support meaningful change across personal, professional, and performance domains.