About Sara
Sara Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with people facing worry, low mood, relationship strain, and stress. She draws on four years of experience helping people name what feels hard and take small, steady steps toward change. Sara tends to offer calm, practical guidance in sessions and values direct, respectful conversation.
She helps with anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and problems with sleep and eating. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Issues around self-esteem, career stress, and parenting concerns are part of her day-to-day work. Sara pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and early caregiving experiences shape current patterns. She also addresses complex presentations such as co-morbidity, dissociation, and mood instability.
When relationship problems surface she focuses on communication and commitment issues that keep patterns repeating. Sessions aim to break big problems into manageable pieces. She helps clients build coping skills, practice new ways of responding, and try experiments between sessions.
The tone in the room is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on practical steps. Sara offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule. She works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online work
Two of the most commonly used evidence-based techniques she uses focus on building practical coping skills and changing unhelpful patterns. Skills-based work teaches breathing, grounding, sleep and routine strategies that help reduce day-to-day symptoms of anxiety, stress, and insomnia. Pattern-focused work looks at how attachment and early losses or abandonment shape current reactions, and it helps people notice and change repeating cycles.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try a few techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions match their needs and preferences over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when a quick check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions or to check in with short updates. These options help fit therapy into real life and different schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English