About Lani
Lani Ete is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and problems with mood or substance use. She works with concerns such as sleep trouble, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, and ADHD. Lani practices online and brings 17 years of clinical experience to remote care from Utah.
Her approach mixes several methods so each plan matches the person’s needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered and acceptance-based ideas to support self-awareness and values-driven choices. Sessions are described as warm and approachable. Lani asks clients to do focused work between sessions, such as short exercises or reflection tasks, so progress continues outside the meeting.
She expects commitment to homework and timely completion so she can review it before appointments. Her training includes a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling earned in 2007 and professional licensure as an LCMHC in Utah. Lani lived and began her education in Hawaii before completing distance learning for her undergraduate studies.
She offers a straightforward, collaborative style that emphasizes understanding how past and present relationships affect current life. The goal is to help people learn about themselves, process difficult events, and move toward clearer direction and better daily functioning. Lani invites prospective clients to consider what they want from counseling and to be ready to engage both during and between sessions.
Her practice operates online, with a focus on building a steady, active therapy process.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take actions that matter to them, even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building rapport so people feel understood and can explore their goals at their own pace.Lani treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and then shape a plan using techniques from these approaches. The therapist and client check in on progress and adjust methods as needed to match evolving needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing homework support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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