About Saju
Saju Abraham is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. He also supports clients facing parenting pressures, career concerns, addiction issues, grief, trauma, and challenges like ADHD and self-esteem. Saju practices in Texas and brings 15 years of counseling experience to his work.
Saju favors a straightforward, person-centered style. He centers the conversation on each person's history and values. Sessions often look like focused conversation about what matters now, with practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
He commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when people need skills for emotional regulation and tolerating distress. Emotion-focused methods help when the main work is understanding painful feelings in relationships.
Much of his prior experience comes from outpatient care and hospital-based counseling. That background gives him practice working with people through acute stresses and ongoing life changes. He aims to help clients develop tools they can use day to day.
Saju describes counseling as a collaborative process. He helps people identify small, realistic goals and then practices ways to reach them. Outside the office he lives in Texas with his wife and daughter and is expecting another child later this year.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful therapeutic bond; the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them explore values and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and it uses short exercises and homework to shift patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, often teaching breathing, grounding, or communication steps that can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those aims. Over a few sessions the pair can adjust focus and techniques so the plan matches real-world needs and results feel useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility that helps this process. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in shorter bursts, fit therapy into a busy day, and keep a running thread of insight between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and practice new skills in everyday situations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English