About Sara
Sara Irwin is a licensed counselor who helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. She speaks plainly and listens with care, aiming to make therapy useful and practical. Sara brings 14 years of experience to sessions and works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, parenting struggles, and relationship problems.
Her approach focuses on clear problem solving and steady support. She uses tools drawn from cognitive behavioral techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered work to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building, looking at behaviors and thoughts, and setting concrete goals. Sara trained at Creighton University and holds LCPC and LPC credentials. She has experience in both clinic settings and independent practice and has helped people with trauma, impulse control, and substance issues among other challenges.
Her background includes work across age ranges and settings, and she brings that variety into how she plans treatment. Conversations with her are straightforward and collaborative. She aims to actively listen, name patterns, and work with each person to find practical next steps.
Many people use therapy to manage stress, improve relationships, or cope with life changes, and she helps tailor the focus to each person's needs. Outside of work she spends time with her two young children and enjoys running, reading, and getting outdoors.
She encourages people to begin small steps toward change and to use therapy as a place to try things that move life forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them and then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change patterns that cause stress or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, listening relationship where the person sets the pace and the therapist offers empathy and reflection to help clarify goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then try methods that feel like a good fit. Adjustments can be made as progress is tracked so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports shorter reflections between sessions. These options help people keep regular contact, practice skills in daily life, and maintain momentum even when schedules are tight.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, California
- Languages
- English