About Sara
Sara Schuessler is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, depression, and trauma. She works with adults navigating life changes and personal struggles, including issues like ADHD, self-esteem, and relationship strain. Sara aims for a warm, straightforward approach that centers each person's goals and voice.
Sara brings 14 years of clinical experience in Missouri. Her background includes work in residential treatment, schools, and community settings.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped a practical skill set for handling family problems, blended family issues, and difficulties tied to attachment or neurodiversity. Her style is client-centered. That means sessions focus on what the client wants to change, and Sara uses techniques that match those aims.
She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused strategies to set clear goals and try manageable steps between meetings. Sara also supports people processing trauma and abuse using trauma-focused methods. She pays attention to safety and pacing so conversations move at a comfortable rate for each person.
Outside of work she enjoys cycling, reading, and spending time with her family and dog. Those personal interests inform a relaxed, conversational therapy tone that many people find approachable.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers the client’s priorities and supports choices in how to reach goals. In practice that looks like the therapist listening, reflecting what matters most, and shaping sessions around those aims. This approach is helpful when someone wants a thoughtful, paced process for personal change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress-related struggles because it breaks concerns into clear steps to work on between sessions.
Sara also uses solution-focused techniques that aim for practical progress in a few sessions. Those methods help set concrete goals and try experiments that can relieve immediate problems, which works well for parenting challenges, relationship strain, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sara will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean trying a short CBT exercise one week and a solution-focused plan the next.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone can fit quieter or low-bandwidth situations, and messaging supports quick check-ins or journaling between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or family life and to continue progress when in-person visits aren’t possible.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English