About Sarah
Sarah Mossa is a licensed counselor who helps people facing anxiety, sleep problems, relationship strain, and stress. She also supports those dealing with addiction, low self-esteem, parenting concerns, and challenges tied to life changes. Sarah speaks English and provides care online for clients in Illinois and beyond.
She brings twenty years of experience to sessions and draws on practical methods to make progress feel tangible. Sarah prefers a team approach - she and the client set clear goals and track small steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on tools that people can use between meetings to notice change and build confidence. Her work commonly addresses intimacy-related issues, career strain, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She also assists people navigating blended family concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, fertility and pregnancy-related difficulties, and aftermath from separation or divorce.
Sarah has experience supporting people connected to military and first responder roles and welcomes clients from LGBTQ communities. In-session methods are straightforward and collaborative. Conversations weave together attention to attachment patterns, skills from cognitive behavioral therapy, and solution-focused planning.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help shifting habits or managing addictive behaviors. Clients can book video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on therapist availability.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions use this lens to identify recurring patterns in close relationships and to try new ways of relating in day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people test unhelpful thoughts and build small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is treated as a joint process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, suggest approaches that fit your goals, and adapt methods as progress emerges. Clients often mix strategies - for example using CBT skills alongside solution-focused planning to set realistic next steps.
Online care is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, homework review, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, Arizona, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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