About Shari
Shari Lightfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues with self-esteem and sleep. She works with people coping with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and big life changes. Shari also supports those dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, and communication or commitment struggles.
Shari’s style is warm and person-centered. She aims to meet each person where they are and build a practical plan together.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on real-life changes, not just talk - she uses exercises, movement, and focused reflection to help people notice what is happening in their bodies and daily lives. Her background spans seven years in community mental health settings. That work included individual, group, and family therapy in both residential and outpatient programs.
Those experiences shaped how she blends different methods to fit each person’s needs. Shari draws on Somatic approaches alongside attachment-based and client-centered ideas. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused techniques when they fit the goals.
These tools are mixed to address traumatic memories, patterns in relationships, and daily symptoms like anxiety or sleep disruption. Practical supports may include grounding and mindfulness exercises, ways to track and change unhelpful thoughts, and steps to repair relationship patterns. To begin, people choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
How Somatic and Attachment Work Online
Somatic approaches focus on how the body stores stress and trauma. In sessions this can mean learning to notice sensations, pacing breathing, and trying gentle movements or grounding practices. These techniques help with anxiety, trauma reactions, and physical symptoms that come with stress.Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early connections influence current trust and closeness. It helps people understand why they repeat certain interactions and offers steps to shift those patterns toward healthier responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose methods and adjust them as needed so sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to practice new skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide body-focused exercises, attachment work, and cognitive techniques across these formats to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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