About Shari
Shari Lightfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with trauma, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, addiction, and issues with sleep or eating. Her manner is straightforward and warm, and she focuses on what will help a person in everyday life.
Shari draws on approaches like attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, and EMDR to tailor sessions.
Background and approach
She centers the conversation on the person in front of her and looks for practical ways to reduce symptoms and improve coping. Sessions often include simple exercises, skill building, and focused talk about patterns that get in the way of feeling better. Her background includes seven years in residential and outpatient community mental health settings.
She has led individual and group work and has experience addressing family of origin problems, domestic violence, dissociation, and co-occurring concerns. That variety shaped a flexible approach that aims to meet people where they are. Shari often uses mindfulness and strength-based ideas to help people notice small changes that add up.
She is open to blending traditional and nontraditional techniques to match each person's needs and preferences. Treatment plans emphasize collaboration, clear goals, and step-by-step strategies. People who reach out should expect a practical, person-centered process.
The work often begins with identifying immediate stressors and then building skills for regulating emotions, improving communication, and handling life transitions. Shari explains options and helps set goals that feel doable.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current behavior. Online sessions can use this approach to help people notice attachment patterns, improve communication, and build safer ways of connecting in relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life changes. In remote sessions CBT often includes practical homework, short skills training, and step-by-step behavior experiments that fit into daily routines.
EMDR is a method used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge. When done online it combines focused discussion with guided bilateral stimulation and follow-up exercises tailored to the person’s pace.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process may shift over time as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a variety of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick questions, progress notes, or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit work on anxiety, trauma processing, or behavior change into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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