Lance Allan Kair

Licensed Professional Counselor | Founder | Mental Health Philosopher

Lance Kair is a Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of Agency Matters Mental Health, His You Are Mattering orientation upon psychotherapy integrates trauma-informed therapy with a rigorous philosophical approach to understanding human experience. His work sits at the intersection of psychology, existential philosophy, and lived reality, offering a perspective that moves beyond symptom management into the deeper question of what it means to live a life.

Drawing from both clinical practice and philosophical inquiry, Lance is the originator of Mental Health Philosophy, an emerging framework that examines the underlying assumptions of modern mental health while centering the individual’s capacity to live their own life. His approach is informed by thinkers such as Žižek, Badiou, and Kierkegaard, while remaining grounded in real-world therapeutic work with individuals facing anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and existential distress. This deep philosophical consideration is at the heart of the “YAM” orientation.

Before founding his practice, Lance worked in intensive psychiatric settings, supporting individuals through severe mental health crises, including psychosis, suicidality, and substance use. These experiences, along with his own lived encounters with hardship, inform a style that is direct, compassionate, and deeply human.
Lance’s work challenges conventional narratives of mental health by reframing it less within the absence of disorder, and more the capacity to engage with one’s life. His writing and research explore how meaning, agency, and understanding emerge through the very struggles people seek to resolve.
He is the author of multiple philosophical works, including The Moment of Decisive Significance, and Counsleing and Orientation, and continues to contribute to the evolving discourse on mental health, philosophy, and human agency.

Based in Colorado, Lance works with individuals and couples both in-person and virtually, specializing in anxiety, relationships, men’s issues, and the deeper structures underlying psychological suffering.