About Sabrina
Sabrina Vonderhaar is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She offers straightforward support and practical tools for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, worry, or life changes. Sabrina writes plainly and listens closely so people can make steady progress at their own pace.
She uses client-centered work to build a calm space where people feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps her clients notice unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to shift behavior.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and strengthen attention to the present moment. Sabrina brings four years of clinical experience in areas including addictions, mood disorders, relationship challenges, and grief. Her background includes helping people with smoking and vaping cessation, substance overuse, and process addictions such as gambling or pornography.
She also supports work on self-esteem, body image, and handling guilt or shame. In sessions she focuses on concrete skills like coping strategies, communication tools, and step-by-step plans for change. Motivational Interviewing methods are used to build readiness and personal motivation rather than push for quick fixes.
Solution-Focused techniques help identify small, achievable goals and measure progress along the way. Sabrina practices in Iowa and conducts therapy in English. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and helps clients find approaches that match their goals and day-to-day life.
How Sabrina blends therapy approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the persons own perspective and priorities. It means the therapist listens carefully and follows the clients lead to shape goals and next steps. This approach helps when people need a space to be heard and to figure out what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it offers clear tools to practice between sessions.
Sabrina works together with each person to choose which methods feel most useful. She will help identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process and is decided collaboratively.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for richer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, homework follow-ups, or people who prefer written communication.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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