About Sarah
Sarah Mossa helps people facing stress, anxiety, sleep problems, relationship strain, and struggles with substance use. She also supports concerns around parenting, intimacy, self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes. Sarah practices online and by phone and aims to make the first steps simple and straightforward.
Sarah has worked in the field for 20 years and holds LPCC and LPC credentials. She has experience supporting members of the LGBT community and people from a variety of faith backgrounds.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work with veterans, law enforcement, and caregiving populations as part of that experience. In sessions she takes a team approach. She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals.
She uses practical strategies and talks through what to try between sessions so progress feels concrete. Sarah draws on several common therapeutic approaches. She uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors. She also applies solution-focused and motivational interviewing methods to build on what already works and to find small steps toward change. People who work with Sarah can expect calm, direct feedback and an emphasis on skills that fit daily life.
She works by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging so sessions can fit different schedules and needs. The aim is steady, practical progress toward the goals a person brings to therapy.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based approaches focus on how past and present relationships shape feelings and expectations. In sessions this means exploring patterns in close relationships and identifying ways to change interaction styles that cause repeated conflict or hurt.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-world experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked before to choose which methods to try. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and have a more traditional session feel. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, moment-to-moment support, or ongoing access between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while using the selected therapeutic approaches in ways that suit each person.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- 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-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, Arizona, Ohio
- Languages
- English