About Sarah
Sarah Bakura is a licensed counselor who works with people facing trauma, mood challenges, and issues with self-worth. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and brings six years of experience to clinical work in Wyoming. Her approach centers on listening first and helping each person name what matters most to them.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when emotion regulation and impulsivity are a concern.
Background and approach
Client-centered techniques focus on building trust and honoring each person’s understanding of their situation. Sarah has a background helping people manage anger, anxiety, depression, and bipolar-related struggles. She also supports those coping with abuse, dissociation, isolation, and the fallout of difficult family dynamics.
Her work often addresses attachment, codependency, and patterns around control or commitment. In sessions she draws on emotion-focused work to improve communication and repair relationships with others when that is a goal. Mindfulness practices are introduced to help ground attention and reduce reactivity.
Treatment plans are practical and shaped around daily life tasks and goals. Sarah emphasizes strengths and small steps. She helps people build clearer thinking, steadier moods, and healthier habits over time.
The first meeting focuses on what feels most urgent and what a better week would look like.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to each person. Online sessions using this approach prioritize the client’s perspective and move at their pace, which helps people feel heard and understood even when they are not in the same room.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is about noticing thoughts and testing new behaviors. In online work these techniques become homework-friendly - tracking thoughts, trying experiments between sessions, and reviewing results together over video or messaging.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills translate well to remote formats because they can be taught, practiced, and reinforced using brief messages, phone check-ins, or video demonstrations.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. That planning happens early and is revisited as progress is tracked.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual cues matter and more in-depth conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a workday. Messaging and live chat support ongoing coaching, skill reminders, and shorter problem-solving between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Nevada, Delaware, Montana
- Languages
- English