Lana Kamer , LPC

Lana Kamer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She centers care on each person's story and meets people where they are. Lana aims to create a compassionate space for honest conversation and steady support.

Her practice often supports women and people navigating life transitions like pregnancy, workplace stress, and relationship shifts. Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce overwhelm, build self-compassion, and improve daily coping. Lana uses clear, down-to-earth language so goals feel doable.

She draws from client-centered methods that prioritize the person in the room and from cognitive behavioral ideas that look at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Narrative and solution-focused tools help reframe difficult experiences and identify small, immediate changes that make a difference. Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding their own reasons to change.

Lana pays close attention to family-of-origin patterns, communication problems, and issues that touch identity and body image. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family stress, and the effects of domestic violence.

Her sessions blend listening with practical strategies. Clients can expect to set clear goals, try out new coping skills between sessions, and track progress over time. Lana practices in Michigan and meets people in ways that fit their lives.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead. Online sessions let Lana offer empathic, person-led conversations where clients set the pace and topics. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to test small changes; it works well over video or phone where homework and thought monitoring can be reviewed together.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lana collaborates with each person to decide whether a client-centered, CBT, or solution-focused emphasis will best match their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and shifts methods if something isn’t helping so the plan stays practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are good for brief check-ins or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving between sessions.