About Sabrina
Sabrina Giwa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addiction. She brings 15 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps that make everyday life feel more manageable. Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative.
She listens first, then works with each person to choose tools that fit their situation. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and short-term strategies for relief from strong emotions and worry.
Background and approach
Sabrina uses methods from client-centered care, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. Those tools help people spot unhelpful thoughts, change routines that cause distress, and build calm through focused attention. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to support change and keep progress on track.
She has experience addressing trauma, substance use concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and mood disorders including bipolar symptoms. She also works with people dealing with sexual assault and abuse, compassion fatigue, and struggles tied to prejudice or multicultural issues. Sabrina practices in Missouri as an LPC and LCPC.
Conversations are aimed at practical next steps rather than long theoretical talks. The goal is to leave sessions with something usable for the week ahead.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and validating each person's experience. Online sessions use that approach to build trust and identify practical goals for daily life, which is useful for stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions CBT is used to notice unhelpful thinking patterns, practice new behaviors, and set small experiments to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus. These techniques can be practiced between sessions and reviewed during video or text check-ins.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Changes are paced to what feels doable and helpful for the individual.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, Washington
- Languages
- English
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