About Sara
Sara LaBelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients find balance and clearer thinking during difficult times. Sessions are paced to fit each person’s needs and goals.
With ten years of experience, she addresses common life struggles like parenting pressures, career changes, grief, and problems with sleep or eating. She also helps people cope with relationship tension, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Sara pays attention to how past experiences like adoption, attachment issues, or feelings of abandonment shape current patterns. Her practice draws on client-centered work that keeps the person’s priorities front and center. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking and acting.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help people notice the present moment and reduce stress. Sara offers a supportive, nonjudgmental space where practical tools meet personal values. She helps clients set small, achievable steps and checks progress along the way.
Conversations focus on real-life solutions that can be practiced between sessions. People reach out for help with anxiety, career worries, parenting strain, or major life transitions. Sara aims to make therapy understandable and useful, not just theoretical.
She works in English and conducts sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Sara blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to focus on what matters most to the client. Client-centered work means conversations start where the person is, and goals are set together. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavioral changes that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention practices that reduce stress and improve sleep. Mindfulness involves short exercises to notice sensations, thoughts, and emotions without judgment, which can be useful when managing worry or strong feelings.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques based on what helps most.
Online formats support different needs and lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or busy days while keeping therapy focused on practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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