About Shari
Shari Lightfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, and ADHD. She also supports clients dealing with relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and trauma or abuse. Her tone is encouraging and practical for someone starting therapy.
Shari offers short-term strategies and longer-term work depending on what each person needs. She uses everyday language and concrete steps in sessions. Conversations focus on skills that can help with sleep, anger, impulsivity, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also addresses complicated issues like dissociation, codependency, and attachment wounds. Her background includes seven years of clinical experience. That work has taken place in outpatient and residential settings within community mental health programs.
Those roles involved individual, group, and family-oriented work and exposed her to many different life situations. In sessions she blends several approaches to match the person in front of her. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used for thinking patterns and behavior change.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is included for processing trauma when appropriate. Client-centered and attachment-based ideas shape how she builds trust and safety. Shari aims to tailor therapy to each person's values and daily life.
She welcomes questions about what a typical session looks like and how techniques might fit into a busy schedule. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Colorado.
How attachment, CBT, and EMDR work online
Shari commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or depression. CBT sessions focus on practical skills like sleep routines, breaking cycles of avoidance, and addressing impulsivity.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to help people understand how past relationships shape current patterns. That work looks at connection, trust, and communication in a straightforward way and can help with relationship and intimacy concerns.
EMDR is used when trauma memories interfere with daily life; it supports processing distressing memories so they feel less intrusive. In online sessions EMDR can be adapted with appropriate pacing and clear guidance about exercises and grounding techniques.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to prioritize skills work, attachment-focused exploration, or trauma processing and can shift methods as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for hands-on skill coaching and longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text can provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, or support between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and to keep momentum when life is busy.
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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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