Aimee Lighty, LPC

Aimee Lighty is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who uses clear, practical strategies to help people manage stress and emotional struggles. She leans on cognitive behavioral therapy as a core approach and focuses on helping clients make small, useful changes that improve daily life.

Aimee commonly helps with anxiety, depression, mood concerns such as bipolar, and symptoms related to trauma and abuse. She also supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, problems with sleep and eating, anger, addictions, and low self-esteem. Additional focus areas include veteran and armed forces issues and self-harm concerns.

Her style is warm and approachable, with a straightforward focus on finding what works. Sessions aim to be collaborative - she talks things through with clients and helps design practical steps rather than only discussing problems.

With 15 years of counseling experience, Aimee draws from client-centered and solution-focused methods in addition to cognitive behavioral techniques. That mix lets her adapt to each person’s needs while keeping sessions goal-oriented.

People who meet with Aimee can expect a balance of support and action. She helps identify patterns that get in the way, then works with clients to try new strategies and track progress. Time in sessions is used to set clear next steps people can practice between meetings.

How Aimee blends talk and action online

Aimee uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and try practical changes that reduce anxiety, improve mood, and alter day-to-day routines. Client-centered therapy guides her tone by keeping the focus on each person's experience and choices, offering empathetic support while clients set the agenda.

She also uses solution-focused techniques to break problems into achievable steps and to track small wins. Together these approaches help with stress, depression, relationship strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD challenges, and recovery from trauma. Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the work. Aimee collaborates with clients to decide what feels most useful based on their needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying a fixed plan.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical options for different situations. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions fit shorter check-ins or low bandwidth, live chat can work for quick problem-solving, and text messaging supports ongoing touchpoints between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on real-world change.