About Lana
Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 35 years of experience practicing in Colorado. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Lana aims to make the first step into therapy feel doable and clear for worried parents and busy adults.
She creates a calm space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment. Sessions emphasize practical steps to build confidence and better coping skills.
Background and approach
Lana listens for patterns in relationships and family life that keep problems repeating and helps clients notice options they might have missed. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals at the center. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build more useful habits.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with stress, anxiety, and attention to the present moment. Lana brings decades of experience to difficult topics like trauma, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing issues such as adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, and communication problems.
Her approach is practical and steady, focused on small changes that add up. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Lana offers a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Lana uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's goals and values. This means sessions start with what matters to the client and proceed at their pace, useful for people unsure where to begin.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. CBT is practical for anxiety, low mood, and changing patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lana will talk with each person about their needs and goals and suggest methods to try. Together they adjust methods based on what helps most over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work visually and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, note-taking, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family, and travel.
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What this counselor 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