Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a licensed professional counselor with 35 years of practice in Colorado.
01About Lana
Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a licensed professional counselor with 35 years of practice in Colorado. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or major life changes. Lana aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported.
She centers sessions on an open, nonjudgmental conversation. Clients can expect a calm space to talk through difficult feelings and sort priorities. Lana listens for practical concerns and helps people translate insights into everyday steps.
Background and approach
Her work pulls from several approaches, including client-centered methods that follow the person's pace, cognitive behavioral strategies that look at thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that repeat over time. Lana has helped people with parenting stress, family conflict, adoption and foster care challenges, and issues around identity and relationships.
She also supports those facing career pressure, compassion fatigue, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth. Sessions are offered in English and Lana accepts international clients. She offers several formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
If someone is ready to begin, they can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
02Credentials
- LPC (Colorado)
- License LPC.0003736 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1073180402 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Lana names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Lana names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy places the client's experience at the center of sessions. Lana follows the person's pace, listens closely, and helps people name what matters most so they can decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact; it is used to reduce anxiety, shift unhelpful habits, and support mood changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help lower reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lana will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes therapy more practical and easier to apply in daily life.
Online formats make regular contact easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or check in on a day-to-day basis. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with being on camera.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Lana address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and family problems, self-esteem, parenting strain, career pressure, and related life changes.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions focus on open, nonjudgmental conversation. Lana blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
How long has she practiced as a counselor?
She has 35 years of professional experience working with a wide range of emotional and interpersonal concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado and conducts her work from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and she is available to work with international clients as well.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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