Shari Lightfield , LPC

Shari Lightfield is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues related to identity and addiction. She also supports people coping with grief, sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Shari practices in Colorado and communicates in English.

Shari uses a down-to-earth, person-centered approach. She listens first and tailors sessions to each person's needs. Sessions can include practical skills drawn from cognitive behavioral work and emotional processing aimed at improving connection and coping.

Her background includes seven years working in residential and outpatient community mental health settings. That experience involved individual, group, and family work across different levels of care. Those roles shaped her comfort with both short-term problem solving and longer-term healing work.

In sessions Shari blends attachment-focused ideas with client-centered care. She may use emotion-focused techniques to address relational pain and EMDR to process traumatic memories when appropriate. Mindfulness and strength-based practices are also woven into treatment to help people build steady habits and notice progress.

People who choose Shari often want a therapist who is straightforward, warm, and collaborative. She aims to build a working relationship based on clear communication, honesty, and mutual respect. Her style focuses on what helps a person move forward in everyday life.

Approaches and online therapy options that fit your life

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early bonds affect current trust, closeness, and reactions to conflict. It can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment wounds, and relationship struggles. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills for changing them; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a method that supports processing traumatic memories and reducing the intensity of distress tied to those memories.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean combining attachment ideas, CBT skills, and EMDR work over time so treatment remains flexible and responsive.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling easier to fit into a busy life. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging offers a way to stay connected between meetings. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other commitments.