Marriage & Family Therapy Practice – The Collaborative Counseling Center
Whitney Goodman, a licensed marriage and family therapist, author, and mother, operates The Collaborative Counseling Center, LLC through the website sitwithwhit.com. She describes her professional work as focused on transforming the way people approach adult family relationships, with an emphasis on authentic emotional engagement and the relational costs of suppressing difficult feelings.
Two primary offerings are featured on the site. The first is “Calling Home,” a program centered on adult family dynamics and the ongoing complexity of navigating family relationships through adulthood. The second is Goodman’s published book, “Toxic Positivity,” presented as a powerful guide to owning difficult emotions, including the hardest ones, in order to show up authentically in the world. The book’s description explains that despite cultural and social pressure toward relentless positivity, anxiety and depression remain prevalent, and the book responds with research, client examples, and practical methods for processing difficult emotions with honesty rather than dismissal. The site includes a Press page, indicating the book has received media coverage.
Community testimonials on the site convey the practice’s focus on accessible and practical mental health support. Feedback collected on the site characterizes Goodman’s style as smart, down-to-earth, compassionate, and practical. Testimonials describe her content as putting difficult personal feelings into words, offering tools for self-acceptance and compassion, explaining mental health concepts clearly without offering false or simplified formulas, and providing next steps and applicable solutions that clients can bring into their everyday lives. Her work is described as “validating” with content that is easy to engage with across a range of personal circumstances.
Direct therapeutic consultation is accessible through a “Work With Me” option on the site. The site’s navigation also includes sections for About, Calling Home, Book, Press, and Blog, organized around Goodman’s dual identity as both a therapist and a public author. A blog offers ongoing written mental health content for general readers. A user sign-in feature suggests membership or program-access components for returning participants. Social media presence includes Instagram (@sitwithwhit), Twitter, and email contact at whitney@collabcounseling.com. The site is operated under the copyright of The Collaborative Counseling Center, LLC.