About Aimee
Aimee Lighty is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical, goal-minded therapy. She prioritizes clear, usable steps so clients leave sessions with something they can try. Her approach is warm and straightforward, and she values working together to solve immediate problems.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns, coping with life changes, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include addictions, issues relevant to veterans and armed forces, self-harm, and LGBT concerns. In session she blends client-centered listening with strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. That means she listens first, then helps people test small changes and track what works.
Sessions often move from understanding to trying concrete tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Aimee draws on 15 years of counseling experience in Pennsylvania. She aims for a balance of warmth and directness, adjusting pace to what each person needs.
She does not tell people what to do; instead she partners with them to design realistic steps and evaluate results. People who want straightforward, actionable guidance may find this style helpful. Aimee uses short-term problem solving alongside deeper processing when needed, so sessions can address immediate goals and longer-term patterns over time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Aimee uses client-centered therapy to build a foundation of understanding and trust. This approach means she listens without judgment and follows the person’s lead to understand what matters most. It helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings and want to feel heard.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change them. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and day-to-day stress because it targets clear patterns and offers specific tools to test between sessions.
Solution-focused therapy is brief and goal-directed. It concentrates on small, realistic steps that move a person toward their goals. This approach is useful when someone wants quick, tangible changes or a way to break down big problems into manageable tasks.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to the person’s goals and preferences, and adjust methods as work progresses. Together they choose what to try first and review what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people stay in touch between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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