About Sara
Sara Khaledpour is a licensed counselor with more than a decade of clinical experience. She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and practices in Missouri. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, addiction, and the strain of life changes.
Sara keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps people set small, realistic goals. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills.
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Background and approach
Her approach is warm and client-centered. Sessions aim to be a place to say hard things and try new ways of responding. Sara encourages curiosity about habits, emotions, and relationships rather than blame. <br
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sara uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful behaviors. CBT focuses on practical steps and exercises that can be practiced between sessions to reduce symptoms and build new habits.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which prioritizes listening and supporting each person at their own pace. This approach helps clients feel heard while they explore goals and make decisions that fit their values.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with clients to identify what methods match their needs and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress unfolds. This collaborative process helps set realistic goals and track small wins.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a lunch break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling-style updates, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly address?
Sara works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, low self-esteem, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and related challenges.
What is her general therapy style?
She practices a client-centered style with practical tools. Sessions blend active listening, goal-setting, and exercises drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.
How long has she been working clinically?
She brings 12 years of professional experience to her practice, supporting people through a wide range of life and mental health concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials and is based in Missouri, with licensure in Missouri and Illinois noted in her background.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Persian.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English, Persian
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