- Strength-based focus
- Addiction support
- LGBTQ affirming
About Salena
Salena Manaois is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and addiction. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental so clients can talk honestly about hard things.
She works with people facing identity and relationship concerns, including LGBTQ+ matters and gender dysphoria. She also has experience supporting veterans, first responders, and people dealing with grief or end-of-life issues. That background helps when problems are tied to work, trauma, or major life transitions.
In sessions Salena uses practical methods drawn from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. She aims to help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful patterns, and build new routines that stick.
Her work with addictions includes process and sexual addiction, and she helps people untangle how behaviors serve or harm them. Parenting and intimacy-related challenges are also part of her practice when individuals want to improve connection and boundaries.
Salena asks clients to be active partners in therapy. She listens first, then helps shape steps that fit daily life. To begin, readers are encouraged to complete the matching questionnaire and schedule a session so Salena can learn about their goals.
She works with people facing identity and relationship concerns, including LGBTQ+ matters and gender dysphoria. She also has experience supporting veterans, first responders, and people dealing with grief or end-of-life issues. That background helps when problems are tied to work, trauma, or major life transitions.
In sessions Salena uses practical methods drawn from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. She aims to help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful patterns, and build new routines that stick.
Her work with addictions includes process and sexual addiction, and she helps people untangle how behaviors serve or harm them. Parenting and intimacy-related challenges are also part of her practice when individuals want to improve connection and boundaries.
Salena asks clients to be active partners in therapy. She listens first, then helps shape steps that fit daily life. To begin, readers are encouraged to complete the matching questionnaire and schedule a session so Salena can learn about their goals.