About Salena
Salena Manaois offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado and draws on 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on clear steps that help with day-to-day coping and longer-term change.
She helps clients who face LGBTQ+ concerns, gender dysphoria, relationship strain, and grief. She also provides focused care for first responders, military veterans, and people dealing with hospice and end-of-life issues.
Background and approach
Addiction concerns she supports include process addictions such as pornography, exercise, gambling, and sex addiction. In sessions she uses practical, evidence-informed methods to build new habits and reduce distress. She mixes cognitive behavioral work with acceptance-based skills and motivational strategies to meet people where they are.
She aims for straightforward conversation and doable actions between sessions. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, with attention to each person's values and goals. Therapy is collaborative: she helps clients set short-term goals and track progress.
Over time the focus shifts to maintaining gains and handling setbacks without losing hope. Salena has worked across many settings during her career, which shaped her ability to support people in crisis and transition. She offers a space to talk through difficult experiences and to develop concrete tools for everyday life.
If someone wants steady guidance and clear strategies, she can help map the next steps.
Online approaches that fit busy lives
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is useful for chronic anxiety, depression, and navigating identity questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and practice between sessions. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and many forms of addictive behavior. Motivational Interviewing aims to increase a person’s readiness for change by resolving ambivalence and building internal motivation; it pairs well with addiction work and behavior change goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative planning can change over time as priorities shift or new challenges arise.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English