About Sara
Sara Schwab is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 15 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, attention difficulties, or life changes. Sara focuses on practical steps that fit each person's everyday life.
Sara has worked in independent practice, community mental health settings, and as a coach. That variety shaped a style that mixes creative thinking with measurable progress. She often helps people build simple routines and systems that improve focus and lower daily stress.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady pace and focus on skills you can use between meetings. Sara uses basic tracking and goal-checking so people can see small wins. This approach is aimed at keeping momentum and avoiding vague progress reports.
She pays attention to concerns such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, addiction, sleep and eating issues, and career or parenting stress. Sara also supports people dealing with midlife transitions, autism and Asperger Syndrome concerns, and LGBT-related challenges. People who do best with her tend to want hands-on strategies and clear ways to measure change.
She guides them to try methods, check results, and adjust plans when needed. The tone is practical, encouraging, and focused on forward steps.
Practical approaches you can use online
Sara emphasizes evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and measurable steps. One common method she uses breaks down daily routines and attention strategies into small, repeatable actions to help with focus and ADHD-related struggles. This involves creating simple systems and tracking progress so clients can spot what helps and what needs changing.Another approach centers on anxiety management through short practical exercises and behavioral changes. These techniques teach breathing, grounding, and scheduling skills to reduce daily stress and improve sleep and eating patterns when those are affected by anxiety.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sara works with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, daily life, and preferences. Together they try methods, review results, and tweak plans until the tools feel useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and go-to therapeutic work. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief, frequent touchpoints. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit around school, work, and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Coaching
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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