About Lana
Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 35 years of experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Lana aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure about therapy.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through emotions and everyday problems. Sessions often center on practical coping skills and clearer communication.
Background and approach
Lana supports people facing life transitions, parenting challenges, career questions, and complex family dynamics. Lana uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on client-centered work to follow what matters to the client, cognitive behavioral techniques to reshape unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness methods to reduce stress.
Other influences include Jungian thinking and motivational interviewing to explore deeper patterns and encourage change. Her practice includes attention to identity and relationship questions, including LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, and forgiveness or guilt themes. She also helps people dealing with isolation, codependency, jealousy, and commitment struggles.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Lana welcomes conversations about practical next steps and how therapy might fit into a busy life. She works with people who want to rebuild confidence, manage strong emotions like anger, or find a clearer sense of life purpose.
Sessions are paced to each person's needs and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered work focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment and follows what the client finds most important, which helps people feel heard and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause stress or anxiety. Mindfulness practice trains attention to the present moment and can reduce rumination and emotional reactivity.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Lana will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best with a client's goals, history, and preferences. That might mean blending styles over time, trying techniques in-session, and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people read visual cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when speaking without video is easier. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, written reflection, or ongoing support between appointments. These options help make consistent care fit into work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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