About Sara
Sara Veldhuizen is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Indiana who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, life changes, and relationship concerns. She works with adults who want to understand themselves better and make lasting change. Her style is collaborative and reflective, so clients are active participants in the work.
Sara focuses on noticing patterns in feelings and behavior. Sessions often look at how past experiences shape current reactions. She helps people identify small changes that feel manageable and meaningful.
Background and approach
Her approach blends practical tools and deeper reflection. That means using clear strategies when needed, and also talking through emotions and choices. Clients who like to think about their inner life and try new habits tend to do well with her way of working.
Over 11 years in the field, Sara has worked with concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, body image, mood disorders, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with career pressures, compassion fatigue, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Sara uses methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
Sessions are meant to be practical, steady, and tailored to each person’s goals. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Online approaches that blend insight and practical work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences. It involves open, listening-based conversations that help people feel heard and clarify what matters to them. This approach suits anyone wanting to better understand choices, values, and emotional patterns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches specific strategies for changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Mindfulness therapy complements this by teaching attention and grounding skills to manage stress and overwhelming emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so they stay focused and useful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text works well for brief updates, tracking progress, or when someone prefers written exchanges. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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