About Yasaman
Yasaman Sherbaf is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Virginia. She works with people managing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and big life changes. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and aims to make therapy approachable and straightforward.
Yasaman uses a collaborative style. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking. She helps clients sort relationships, intimacy concerns, grief, and career stress.
She also supports people dealing with shame, isolation, or challenges from their family of origin.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centered techniques that prioritize the person's goals and perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help with emotion regulation and managing intense feelings.
She has three years of clinical experience as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - in Virginia. That background includes helping people with substance use issues, codependency, and communication problems. Yasaman also addresses concerns related to ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Therapy sessions may include coaching elements when clients want help setting goals and making plans. She aims to tailor approaches to each person instead of following a single technique. Sessions are intended to be a space to practice new ways of handling stress and relationships.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals. Online sessions let the therapist reflect what matters to the person and shape each conversation around their needs, whether that means sorting relationship problems or building self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In video or phone sessions clients learn practical exercises and homework tasks they can try between meetings to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Skills training can be taught over chat or video and practiced afterward to help with anger, impulse control, or emotional overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to find the best mix of strategies for the person's situation and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video mimics an in-person visit and is useful for teaching skills that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when internet is limited. Live chat or text messages allow shorter check-ins, written coaching, and step-by-step guidance between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain progress around busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish