Lara Collis, LPC, has been with Greatland Clinical Associates since October 2023 and specializes in supporting individuals and their loved ones as they navigate burnout, stress, life transitions, and trauma-related concerns. She works with healthcare providers, educators, caregivers, and highly sensitive individuals, helping them maintain well-being while living meaningful, demanding lives.

Lara’s therapeutic style is integrative, relational, and culturally informed. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, EMDR, Positive Psychology, multicultural wellness, trauma-informed care, and neuroscience-based interventions. Her work is grounded in respect and curiosity and in aligning care with each person’s values, lived experience, and cultural and spiritual context.

Beyond traditional talk therapy, Lara integrates digital art creation and customized visual content to support nervous system regulation, client education, goal setting, and wellness skill-building. These tools help clients externalize inner experiences, deepen insight, and access sensory pathways that support learning, calming, and integration. She is open to both short-term and long-term therapy.

Lara has more than 18 years of experience in counseling and wellness, including roles as a mental health clinician, on-call clinician, group facilitator, acting clinical supervisor, community educator, and wellness coordinator. Prior to joining Greatland Clinical, she lived and worked in the Seattle area, in Bristol Bay, and on the North Slope.

Her areas of interest include stress management, burnout prevention, cross-cultural counseling, grief and loss, acute and chronic post-traumatic stress, and spirituality. She is also passionate about helping healthcare providers and caregivers reduce compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization.

Lara was born in Scotland and moved to the United States as an infant. She has lived in California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington, and Alaska. As an adolescent, she spent a year traveling the world with her family—an experience that shaped her appreciation for diverse cultures and the shared humanity of our global community.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University and a master’s in systems counseling from the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) at Bastyr University. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor in Washington and Alaska since 2011. Outside her clinical work, Lara enjoys travel, photography, reading, music, nature, and the performing arts. A fun fact: in her twenties, she learned to “eat fire” at a Mardi Gras celebration in Knoxville, TN.