About Sepideh
Sepideh Pourhassani, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, or big life changes. She works with adults and adolescents and aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable. Her approach is straightforward and practical, focused on what a person needs right now.
She uses client-centered methods to listen and learn what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is part of her toolbox to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help calm the body and refocus attention in difficult moments. Sepideh has eight years of experience and offers care to people from diverse backgrounds. She also supports concerns linked to trauma, parenting struggles, relationship stress, anger, low self-esteem, and recovery from substance use.
Additional focuses include attachment, adoption and foster care issues, and multicultural concerns. In sessions she emphasizes clear steps and small goals. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to build motivation and practical plans.
Sessions are conversational and rooted in what a person wants to change right away. People can expect a collaborative process that balances skill-building with emotional support. Sepideh encourages clients to prioritize their needs and to take gradual, achievable steps toward better daily functioning and well-being.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person says matters most. It helps build trust and a clear sense of goals by centering the client's own priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple tools to test and change those patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood challenges. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and bring calm into daily moments, which can help with anxiety and impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through your needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit you. Sessions are collaborative and adapt over time if a different mix of tools would be more helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short check-ins, brief problem-solving, or support between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it possible to continue progress from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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