About Sabrina
Sabrina Sahle is a clinician based in Maryland who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She brings 13 years of experience working with people from diverse backgrounds. Sabrina communicates in English and Tigrinya and aims to make therapy approachable and understandable.
Sabrina trained in Educational Psychology at the University of Asmara and completed a Master of Arts in International Affairs and a Master of Social Work at Ohio University.
Background and approach
She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Clinical Social Worker - LCSW-C. Her background includes trauma work with refugees and counseling college students at a university counseling center. She has provided individual and group psychotherapy in community agencies and a independent practice she opened in Maryland.
Her work has included supporting people with immigration-related stress, grief, addiction concerns, and life transitions. She has experience addressing attachment issues, body image, and communication problems among other concerns. Sabrina's style is warm, open, and interactive.
Sessions focus on clear conversation, self-reflection, and practical steps people can try between meetings. She emphasizes honesty and building self-awareness as tools to reduce suffering. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment principles, attachment-based thinking, emotionally-focused methods, and client-centered listening.
People can expect collaborative goal-setting and a mix of conversation and exercises aimed at daily life changes.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to choose actions that match their values. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses concrete tools and experiments to shift unhelpful patterns, which many people find useful for anxiety and depression.Finding the best fit is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or journaling between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving schedule, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English, Tigrinya
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