About Sara
Sara LaBelle is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan who focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, career shifts, and grief. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at building coping skills and clearer thinking.
In sessions she listens first, then helps identify patterns that keep problems going. She offers simple tools to manage strong emotions like anger and to improve sleep and eating habits.
Background and approach
She also supports people feeling overwhelmed by life changes or compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. Sara draws on client-centered work to keep the conversation grounded in each person’s priorities. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and to try small, testable changes.
Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas add short exercises and goal-oriented steps to track progress. Her background includes ten years of counseling experience across a range of concerns, including attention differences and attachment-related issues. She works with individual adults who want clearer communication, better self-esteem, or help navigating adoption, blended family challenges, or separation.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sara emphasizes collaboration - she helps people pick strategies that fit their life, then adapts the plan as they go.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflecting what matters to the person. Online sessions let the therapist follow your lead, focus on your goals, and shape each session around what feels most helpful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tests small changes in daily life; it translates well to online work with homework, thought logs, and step-by-step plans that can be reviewed on video or in messages.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques that fit your situation, and adjust methods based on what helps. You and the therapist decide together which tools to keep and which to change as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, each offering practical benefits. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face discussion and interactive exercises. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching moments, or when scheduling needs shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English