About Shari
Shari Lightfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. She also supports issues tied to parenting, grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging for people looking for practical help.
Shari uses a person-centered approach that centers the client's needs and goals. She blends attachment-focused work with cognitive behavioral strategies and emotion-focused techniques.
How Shari works
That mix lets her address patterns in relationships, painful memories, and day-to-day habits that keep someone stuck. Sessions usually focus on clear, doable steps. She works with clients to spot unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of responding, and rebuild safety in relationships.
For trauma and overwhelming memories, she can incorporate EMDR to help process those experiences over time. Her background includes seven years working in residential and outpatient community mental health settings. That experience brought exposure to individual, group, and family work, and to a range of co-occurring issues people often face.
Shari aims to be flexible about methods while keeping the client's priorities central. People who meet with her can expect an authentic but practical style. She often brings mindfulness practices and strength-based ideas into sessions.
The goal is to find tools that fit each person's life and to help them make steady, manageable changes.
Shari lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Shari works with
The areas below are the ones Shari selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Shari often combines Attachment-Based Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people understand relationship patterns and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people create more supported ways of relating. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts, then trying new behaviors to reduce distress.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy when the main issues are intense emotions in relationships. EFT helps people name and shift strong feelings so they can connect differently with others. The therapist will talk with each person about which approaches fit best and will adapt methods to suit individual goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and do longer therapy work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and more frequent touch points between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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