About Salena
Salena Manaois is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with twenty years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, and questions about identity. Salena aims to make therapy practical and approachable so people can feel steadier day to day.
She uses straightforward conversations to understand what feels hard right now. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping skills, and steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Salena listens without judgment and helps clients notice patterns that keep problems stuck. Her background includes work with veterans and first responders, and experience addressing gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, intimacy problems, parenting strain, and process or sex addictions.
That range informs how she tailors care for each person's situation. Salena draws from several therapy methods to match what a person needs. She often blends acceptance-based work with practical behavior change and skills training.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about making changes, and solution-focused ideas keep sessions goal-oriented and concise. People who choose her can expect a collaborative approach that mixes listening, skill teaching, and short-term problem solving. She helps clients build resilience, clarify values, and create small, manageable steps toward healthier routines.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then choose values-based steps forward; this can help with anxiety and depression. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which is useful for stress, anxiety, and certain addictive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, and can be helpful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts get in the way.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences rather than using one fixed model. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow visual connection for skills practice, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers written conversation. These formats offer flexibility and make it possible to maintain consistent work on anxiety, addiction recovery, and other concerns without extra travel.
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What this therapist 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
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