Lana Vsetecka-Schymos, LPC

Lana Vsetecka-Schymos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 35 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Lana focuses on building a supportive space where clients can speak openly and be heard.

She works with concerns around relationships, family tensions, parenting, and self-esteem. Lana also assists people facing grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose. Her background includes helping those navigating adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and divorce or separation.

Lana uses several approaches to guide sessions, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, Jungian perspectives, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In practice, this looks like listening carefully, asking practical questions, and offering strategies clients can try between sessions.

Sessions tend to focus on clear goals such as improving communication, reducing anxiety, or managing anger. Lana helps people break big problems into smaller steps and build everyday routines that support change. She encourages gradual progress and checks in on what is working.

People who come to Lana often want respectful, steady support while they rethink priorities or face major life changes. She invites curiosity and asks clients to explore values, patterns, and small experiments that can lead to more fulfilling days.

Approaches that translate to online work

Lana draws on client-centered therapy to prioritize the client's perspective and goals. This approach centers on listening, reflecting back what matters, and helping people name their priorities, which can be especially helpful when rethinking midlife choices or family roles.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, anger, and mood management that people can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lana works with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. Clients are invited to try techniques and then discuss what helps.

If you are interested in online sessions, confirm the exact session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, shorten commute time, and allow for brief check-ins when schedules are tight. Therapists can also adapt exercises and mindfulness practices so they work in daily routines rather than only during sessions.