About Sara
Sara Schwab is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with about 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, attention concerns, and related life challenges. Sara emphasizes practical changes that fit into a busy life and helps people build systems that actually work for them.
She has worked in independent practice and in larger community mental health settings, and has experience as a coach. That mix shaped a style that blends hands-on tools with straightforward measurement of progress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include tracking strategies and clear short-term tasks so clients can see small wins. Sara favors plain language and concrete steps over clinical jargon. She helps people set manageable goals, reduce overwhelming thoughts, and improve daily routines that affect sleep, focus, and mood.
Her approach is useful for issues such as anxiety, ADHD-related attention problems, depression, and coping with life changes. People who prefer an organized, goal-oriented process may find her style a good fit. She combines creativity with data to help clients stay motivated.
This can be helpful for career questions, parenting stress, self-esteem concerns, and substance-related struggles. Sara also offers support around autism and Asperger syndrome, midlife transition challenges, and intimacy-related topics. She works with LGBT clients and addresses eating, sleeping, relationship, and family-related stress in individual sessions.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Sara works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on measurable change. One approach emphasizes building routines and habits to improve attention and reduce overwhelm by breaking tasks into small, repeatable steps. This helps with ADHD-related focus issues, sleep routines, and daily organization.Another approach centers on teaching skills to manage anxiety and stress with practical exercises. Clients learn breathing and grounding practices, thought-challenging techniques, and brief behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping. These tools aim to reduce worry and increase confidence in handling daily pressures.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She uses simple data tracking and short assignments so progress is visible and adjustments can be made together.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief coaching-style support and ongoing accountability. These formats let clients fit care into busy schedules and maintain continuity even when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Coaching
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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