Salena Manaois, LPC

Salena Manaois is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and LGBTQ concerns. Her tone is affirming and straightforward, which can put someone at ease when they first reach out.

Her work often centers on people dealing with big life shifts, trauma, grief, and intimacy-related worries. She also supports those managing parenting strains and relationship stress. Additional areas of focus include first responder issues, veteran and armed forces matters, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and process or sex addictions.

Salena uses several practical therapy styles to match a person’s needs instead of one fixed method. She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to help people build new habits and handle difficult feelings.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. Typical work includes learning concrete coping skills, practicing new ways of thinking, and making values-based choices. She aims to help clients increase resilience and clearer decision making in day-to-day life.

Clients who value a respectful, nonjudgmental space tend to do well with her way of working. People curious about exploring identity, processing loss, or changing addictive patterns can expect focused, steady support tailored to their situation.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps guided by their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making lasting life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and uses empathy and listening to help people discover their own solutions and build self-understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals, preferences, and what feels useful in early sessions. This is a team process where techniques are adjusted over time.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the profile does not specify them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on a tight day, or letting someone join from a quieter place without commuting. Licensed professionals can use different methods to teach coping skills, practice behavioral experiments, and guide values-driven action in virtual appointments, so practical progress is possible even when meeting remotely.