About Lana
Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 35 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or life transitions. Lana aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk honestly and begin to make small, practical changes.
Her approach is warm and conversational. She listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions often focus on immediate coping skills, improving communication, and building confidence step by step.
Background and approach
Lana uses a mix of methods tailored to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client's goals and pace.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce anxiety and improve present-moment focus. She also draws on ideas from Jungian Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to explore deeper patterns and support internal motivation. This combination can help with grief, trauma, parenting challenges, career questions, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth.
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Lana works with clients to set realistic steps they can use between meetings. She encourages reflection, honest conversation, and steady progress toward clearer priorities and more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting conversation where the client's goals guide the work; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches straightforward techniques to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and bring focus back to the present.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lana will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pace and tools over time so the approach stays useful and realistic for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging formats allow quick check-ins or brief progress notes between visits. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy schedule.
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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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