About Sara
Sara Khaledpour is a licensed professional counselor with experience in both Missouri and Illinois. She brings 12 years of clinical work to her practice and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
She helps people who are coping with addictions, eating concerns, low self-esteem, or motivation struggles. She also supports those working through relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, or life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what matters most to each person. Sara creates an open space for people to talk without fear of judgment. She listens closely and uses that understanding to shape the work together.
Clients can expect clear suggestions and concrete tools they can try between appointments. Her training includes client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques that translate ideas into everyday actions. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing also appear in her work when they fit a person’s goals.
She adapts methods to each person rather than following a fixed script. She offers sessions in English and Persian and works with a broad range of concerns related to mental health and life stress. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits individual needs.
Sara aims to help people build skills that feel useful and manageable in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship where the person leads the pace and topic of conversation. This approach helps when someone needs space to be heard and to clarify their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers practical steps to change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and teaches simple practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying ideas together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan based on what is useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a full-session conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a person prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or when scheduling flexibility is important. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English, Persian
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