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Lana Kamer, LPC

  • Experience15 years
  • LocationMichigan
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Family, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Lana

Lana Kamer is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 15 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. She brings a compassionate, person-focused stance that prioritizes each client’s individual story and strengths.

Background and approach

Lana aims to create an environment where clients can explore painful memories, strengthen coping skills, and work toward clearer communication and emotional balance. Her practice emphasizes practical tools alongside deeper exploration of how past experiences shape present responses.

Lana integrates evidence-informed methods to address relationship dynamics, family-of-origin patterns, and life transitions, including concerns related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, and aging issues. She also supports work on body image, codependency, eating-related struggles, control and communication problems, and recovery after domestic violence.

Sessions focus on empowering clients to increase self-awareness, rebuild resilience, and pursue meaningful change at a pace that fits them. Lana describes her role as a collaborative guide who helps people identify strengths, test new ways of relating, and move toward renewed purpose and healthier emotional functioning.

Integrating Therapy Approaches in Online Care

Internal Family Systems (IFS) explores how different parts of a person hold thoughts, feelings, and memories, helping clients understand internal conflicts and foster greater self-leadership; it can be useful for trauma responses and complex emotional patterns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, empathetic stance that supports self-exploration and personal growth through active listening and validation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical strategies to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors, often helping with anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Lana approaches treatment as a collaborative process, recognizing that the right combination of methods emerges from ongoing conversation about goals, preferences, and responses to care. She works with clients to adapt techniques and pacing, continually checking in to refine the plan so it matches what the client needs and wants.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals from home or work, maintain continuity during life transitions, and choose the mode of communication that best supports their progress.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Lana address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression, along with related issues such as family problems, communication difficulties, and body image concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Lana blends client-centered listening with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral and narrative approaches to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 15 years of experience providing counseling and has worked with a variety of life transitions and interpersonal challenges.
What credentials and location are on record?
She is an LPC licensed in Michigan with licence number MI LPC 6401012131 and practices from that state.
Can non-U.S. clients work with her?
She offers services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and availability.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefDepression

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisNarcissismPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

15+ years

Licensed

Michigan

Languages

English