Creating the therapeutic space together is a steady relationship built on trust, honesty, and deep care. I don’t believe in quick fixes or surface-level change—instead we will stay the course, as I walk with you through the uncertainty, the hard questions, and the tender parts of your story until you begin to see yourself with greater clarity and compassion.
Dru Collins-Minch
LMHC, LPC, NCC, CCTP, CSTIP
Open Space
for the Real Work
of Becoming
Where Honesty Meets Healing
For more than twenty years, I’ve supported people through seasons of change—parents, couples, leaders, and individuals rebuilding after loss, transition, or crisis. My background in education, mental health, and social services shaped the way I practice: patient, grounded, and deeply attuned to what’s most real and human in you.
I work with people navigating trauma, relationship challenges, addiction, family conflict, and those moments of inner unrest when life feels disorienting—when you’re searching for meaning, clarity, or freedom from old patterns that keep repeating.
In therapy, we slow down. Together, we make space to notice the stories you tell yourself, the ways your mind protects you, and the patterns that once kept you safe but now hold you back. Through curiosity, compassion, and honest reflection, we create room for something new to emerge.
My approach blends warmth with gentle challenge. I’ll meet you where you are and walk with you as you stretch toward greater awareness, integrity, and self-leadership. We’ll explore how your inner world and your relationships shape and reflect each other—and how openness itself can become the beginning of healing.
If you’re looking for therapy that makes room for your truth and helps you grow into it, this is your space to be open.
“In therapy, when we create space for curiosity and self-trust, clients access the innate potential for healing that was never truly lost—just hidden.”
My Approach:
Affirm, Explore,
and Discover
Therapy with me isn’t about fixing who you are—it’s about opening space to understand yourself so deeply that change begins to unfold naturally. Together, we create room to rise: to grow, to heal, and to live with clarity, choice, and courage.
Our work begins with slowing down enough to notice what’s really happening inside you—your thoughts, emotions, and the story you’ve carried. This is a space to explore that story without judgment, to learn from it, and to begin writing the next chapters of your life with awareness and intention.
Healing, I believe, happens through connection. The ways we relate—to ourselves and to others—shape our minds, our bodies, and our sense of safety. In our sessions, we’ll explore how your nervous system responds to stress or closeness, how your thoughts influence emotion, and how your past may still echo in the present. As we bring awareness to these patterns, you’ll gain more freedom—to respond instead of react, to trust instead of brace, to feel instead of hide.
Sometimes that means grounding in mindfulness or self-compassion when life feels heavy. Other times it means gently challenging beliefs that keep you small. And often, we’ll listen to the body—your breath, your posture, your sensations—because the body often knows what the mind has not yet named.
This is your space to be open—to what hurts, to what’s healing, and to what’s possible.
