Real therapy. Real change.I can help you find you again.
You deserve to be happy. From Alaska’s fishing villages to Colorado’s mountains to Hawaii’s islands, real therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma & addiction — now by secure video across TX, CO, WA, HI & ID.
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A boy nobody kept built an island that keeps everyone.
Twenty-five years of therapy taught me I can't fix the sun. So I stopped trying, and built the tools instead — one for each specific sadness, where people can reach them the moment they need them.
Why a therapist built an islandWhy Lance
Most platforms promise experience.
Lance has 25 years of it.
Trauma-informed, evidence-based care — CBT, DBT, and approaches built across crisis centers, foster systems, wilderness schools, and federal health centers. All of it now available from wherever you are, over secure, private video.
Twenty-five years. One constant: connection.
One-on-one, families, groups — the work is always two people figuring it out together, waiting for the same sunrise.
Services
Care that meets you where you are.
Therapy in TX, CO, WA, HI & ID. Coaching in all 50 states.
Individual Therapy
Meaningful, lasting change in your emotional health and daily life — tailored to your history, strengths, and goals.
Couples Therapy
Rebuild emotional safety, improve communication, and address the patterns behind conflict or disconnection.
Family Therapy
Strengthen relationships and rebuild trust within the family system — including foster and adoptive families.
Anxiety & Depression
Evidence-based treatment for panic, chronic worry, low mood, and burnout — with practical tools that hold up.
Trauma & PTSD
Trauma-Focused CBT and Trauma Systems Therapy to build safety, regulation, and coping — at a supportive pace.
Addiction Recovery
Beyond sobriety — rebuilding connection, purpose, and joy. Six years leading nationwide recovery groups.
Teens & Adolescents
Specialized support for young people navigating identity, school, family change, and big emotions.
Life & Career Coaching
Non-clinical coaching for transitions, leadership, and growth — including VR coaching.
All 50 statesFind your fit
Not sure where to start? Let's find out.
Three quick questions, no email required — just a pointer in the right direction.
Who is this for?
What's weighing on you most right now?
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Insurance
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30+ plans accepted. Billing handled automatically through Headway.
Evening & weekend appointments, 7 days a week · Responses within 24 hours · HSA & FSA accepted
Something you should know
The notes I write about you stay in my office.
Most therapists now use software that keeps your record on a company’s servers. That is normal, and it is not what I do. I built my own, and it runs on the computer in my office — the session is written up there, and your record is stored there. There is no company in the middle holding it, which means there is no company that can lose it.
I am telling you this because you cannot verify it, and you shouldn’t have to take a website’s word for it either. Ask me at your first session and I will show you the screen that says where it lives. If a therapist cannot answer that question about their own notes, that is worth knowing too — about any of us.
Two honest notes. Our video sessions run on a separate secure telehealth platform, which is a different service with its own protections. And the companion app on your phone is yours: it only ever sends me what you choose to send — a finished exercise, a mood entry — never what you wrote in it.
How it works
Three steps. That's it.
Check your insurance
Use the checker above, or just ask. Most plans are accepted and billing is handled for you.
Schedule with Lance
Tell me what’s going on in a few lines and when you’re free. I read them myself, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit.
Start your first session
Most clients are scheduled within 48 hours, over secure, private video.
The companion app · free with your first visit
Meet LANCExai — therapy that keeps working between sessions.
Not a meditation app — a pocket clinic. 96 evidence-based tools, personalized to you, with your real progress measured and sent securely to your therapist. And now it tells a full five-act story — His Father's Name — built to make you laugh by challenge two, and hand you back your own name by challenge thirty-one. It’s the flagship of XAI Therapy™ — every insight your therapist sees traces to your own entries and the framework behind them, reviewed by a human, owned by you. Glass, not black box →
Your companion. Your tools. Your home screen.
Name your guide and choose their personality, set your theme, then build your home screen from a library of 96 tools. It becomes the app you actually open.
The same modalities used in the room.
CBT thought records, an AI cognitive reframer, DBT skills, EMDR, grounding, breathwork — structured, guided, and grounded in evidence. Not affirmations. Actual practice.
- Guided, step-by-step — never a blank box
- Unlock new tools as you build the habit
Small, steady, between every visit.
Daily mind–body check-ins, mood and sleep tracking, a quick-launch suite, and gentle streaks — so patterns surface and the work doesn’t stop when the session ends.
Your progress comes back to me.
L.A.N.C.E. turns your check-ins, tools, and trends into a clinical synthesis — and when you connect it to your therapist’s practice, that summary travels straight to them over a link you approve. We see what’s working, together. Most solo practices can’t do this. We can.
- You choose what’s shared — nothing leaves without you sending it
- Your own copy is always yours — export the full archive any time
- Outcomes you can actually see between sessions
Real work earns real rewards.
Every challenge completed earns Gems to spend in the Vault — cosmetic titles and badges on glowing pedestals. The rewards never gate the therapy; they just make coming back feel good. That’s the point: the tool you reopen is the tool that helps.
The outcomes loop.
Your work in the app doesn’t vanish into a journal. It becomes clinical information your therapist can actually use — every week.
Open the toolbox.
L.A.N.C.E. holds 96 guided, evidence-based tools. Here are three you can do right now — the Intern walks you through each one. Nothing is saved.
Use a real L.A.N.C.E. tool — right now.
A guided CBT reframe in four taps — the same flow you get inside the app. About 60 seconds.
Grounded in CBT · DBT · EMDR · ACT · IFS · CFT · somatic & Gottman methods — 96 tools, built by a 25-year LPC.
Free with your first visit · optional one-time Pro unlock · now in beta
Your side of the island: the Lighthouse.
L.A.N.C.E. pairs with a clinician cockpit built by the same 25-year LPC — an EHR that's pleasant at 8am and connected live to your client's phone.
Assign any of the 96 tools to a client's phone in one tap — and watch real completion receipts flow back. Said in session, done by Tuesday, visible Wednesday.
One-link telehealth with Therapy Scenes: open a grounding tool on both screens, breathe together in sync — and when a client finishes all 31 challenges, watch the story's ending together.
Live scribe during the call, a drafted note on hangup, signed in under a minute. Less software, more therapy.
The first minute a client sees.
The opening of L.A.N.C.E. is a living picture book — fifteen painted chapters, narrated like a film, every frame moving. This is the art your clients meet in the first minute.
The island grew a fleet.
Clinical machines designed to take over your heart, not the world.
Every world carries the same law — the tools will answer, progress is honest, and the story does the heavy lifting. Built in one real practice, by one therapist and an AI.
No sign-up. On your phone in ten seconds. A Wayward Robots world.
My Story
I didn't start with a platform. I started on an island in Alaska.
One week after completing my master's degree in 2001, I sold everything I owned, packed up my wife and three kids, and moved to a remote fishing village in Petersburg, Alaska. No blueprint. No safety net. Just a calling.
What followed was 25 years of showing up for people others couldn't reach — foster children in state care, Native American communities in New Mexico, families in the Texas desert, immigrants and refugees in Connecticut health centers, addiction survivors rebuilding their lives, couples on the edge, and 90-year-olds who just needed someone to talk to.
I grew from therapist to Clinical Director, to Statewide Director overseeing 16 offices, to Chief Behavioral Health Officer of a Federally Qualified Health Center, to University faculty, to national speaker and published researcher. Then I came back to what I love most — sitting with one person and helping them change their life.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, I joined Lionrock Recovery and ran addiction groups three days a week for people across the entire country — at the exact moment when isolation, grief, and substance use were colliding. That chapter wasn't just about sobriety. It was about helping people find joy again.
Petersburg, Alaska
Individual, family & group therapy in a remote fishing community. School district clinician, Native American Head Start clinical lead, 24-hour crisis counselor.
Tyler, Texas
Crisis center clinical work and neuropsychological testing for ages 6–90. Published research co-author.
New Mexico
Clinical supervisor for 70+ children in treatment foster care and intensive home-based services across rural satellite offices.
Dillwyn, Virginia
Clinical Director of a wilderness therapy school serving 100 students.
Austin, Texas
Statewide foster care clinical director across 16 offices. University faculty and national speaker in trauma-informed care.
Willimantic, Connecticut
Chief Behavioral Health Officer at a federally qualified health center.
Lionrock Recovery
Nationwide addiction recovery groups, three days a week, through the pandemic and beyond.
Telehealth, five states
Private practice serving TX, CO, WA, HI & ID — plus coaching nationwide and clinical supervision for the next generation of counselors.
By the numbers
Twenty-five years. Thousands of lives.
From a fishing village in Alaska to telehealth across five states — every frame here stands for thousands of real sessions, carried by the same steady hands.
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For LPC Associates
Supervision that builds careers — not just hours.
Clinical supervision in TX, CO, WA, HI & ID, from a clinician with settings most supervisors have only read about.
- Individual, group, hybrid & intensive formats
- 100% telehealth — private, and fully documented
- Flexible scheduling 7 days a week, including evenings
Free guide
Thinking about therapy? Start here.
A practical, no-jargon guide — how to find the right therapist, what actually happens in a first session, and how to stop letting uncertainty get in the way. Written by Lance, from 25 years in the room.
No spam, ever — just the guide. Or download it directly.
Contact
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Three ways to connect with Lance today.
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