Shira Collings (she/they)

LPC
Accepting Clients

I’m a licensed therapist who believes healing happens through connection, compassion, and honoring each person’s unique story.

Psychotherapist in Pennsylvania

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Child
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

I specialize in working with people navigating reproductive experiences like abortion, pregnancy loss, infertility, new parenthood, or choosing to be childfree. Many are LGBTQ+ and/or neurodivergent, seeking a space where they feel seen, supported, and affirmed. Some come for coping tools; others for creative ways to express what feels too big for words. All are looking for care that meets them with warmth and respect.

My Background and Approach

I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in reproductive mental health—including abortion, pregnancy loss, infertility, new parenthood, and being childfree. My approach is feminist, relational, and person-centered. I work from the belief that healing happens in connection and that your story deserves to be held with care. I explore how systems of oppression—like patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, queerphobia, and anti-fatness—shape mental health and reproductive experiences. I’m LGBTQ+ affirming, neurodiversity affirming, and aligned with Health at Every Size and disability justice. I offer a space where grief, identity, and complexity are welcome, and where therapy might include talk, coping skills, or creative expression—whatever supports your healing.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

Outside of my role as a therapist, I’m deeply connected to ritual, community care, and creative expression. I serve as a miscarriage and bereavement doula and ceremonialist, supporting people through grief and transition in ways that honor emotional, spiritual, and ancestral dimensions. I also work as a matchmaker for a local Jewish organization, primarily supporting queer, neurodivergent, and childfree folks in building meaningful relationships and community. I’m queer, neurodivergent, and passionate about collective healing that resists individualism, perfectionism, and systems of oppression. My work is grounded in feminist, liberatory, and justice-centered values, shaped by the wisdom of reproductive and disability justice movements. I also foster cats and care deeply about animal rescue—tending to both human and non-human life with compassion. In my free time, I love being with family, playing with my cats, watching movies, and exploring Philadelphia.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Feminist Therapy Person-Centered (Rogerian)
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Exposure Therapy
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Expressive Art Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Philosophical Counseling
  • Inference-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT)
  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy
  • Relationship Counseling
  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Infertility Pregnancy and Postpartum Women's Issues
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Addiction
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Adoption Issues
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Child Issues
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Infertility
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Learning Disorders
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Personality Disorders
  • Physical Disability
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
  • Veterans/Military Service
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Out of Network
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • United Healthcare
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Independence Blue Cross
  • Quest
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Judaism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 6 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $90 - 150/session

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