About Sara
Sara Nielsen is a licensed counselor with nearly two decades of clinical experience. She holds LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor) and LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) credentials and works from Alabama. She welcomes straightforward conversations about everyday struggles and mental health concerns.
Sara uses a collaborative, interactive style. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens without judgment and helps people identify small, practical steps they can take between sessions.
Background and approach
Her day-to-day practice includes helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, eating and sleep problems, and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, grief, career uncertainty, impulsivity, and issues around self-esteem and body image. Therapeutic methods Sara draws on include cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, and mindfulness practices.
She blends these approaches to fit a person’s strengths and goals rather than using a single, fixed method. People can expect a tailored plan that balances skills practice, values-based goals, and guided conversation. Sessions can include behavioral experiments, coping skills coaching, and mindful awareness exercises.
Sara aims to make progress feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions that match those values. It often focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to behavior changes that build a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many day-to-day problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the problems they want to solve. That might mean trying a few techniques, tracking what helps, and adjusting over time so the plan fits real life.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or practicing short exercises. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family routines and let people use the approach that suits them best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, New Hampshire, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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