About Sabrina
Sabrina Vonderhaar uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people facing addiction and related challenges. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa with four years of experience. Sabrina aims to make the first step easier and less intimidating for anyone reaching out.
Sabrina centers sessions on each person's story and what they want to change. She blends straightforward skills with listening so people can build healthier habits and cope with strong urges.
How Sabrina works
Work often includes setting small goals, practicing new coping strategies, and reviewing what helps in day-to-day life. Many people come for help with substance or process addictions, smoking or vaping cessation, or problematic behaviors that feel out of control. Sabrina also supports concerns like anxiety, depression, mood disorders, self-esteem, grief, and compassion fatigue.
She addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, body image, codependency, communication problems, and sexual concerns when they affect recovery or wellbeing. Her methods include client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. These approaches are used to reduce unhelpful patterns and encourage practical steps forward.
Sessions mix short-term skills with deeper reflection as needed. Sabrina offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Conversations are conducted in English and are based in Iowa.
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What Sabrina works with
The areas below are the ones Sabrina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online recovery and coping
Sabrina uses client-centered methods that focus on what matters most to the individual. This approach involves reflective listening and working at the person’s pace to explore goals, values, and barriers to change.She also integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers concrete skills to manage cravings, reduce anxiety, and change unhelpful habits. Mindfulness Therapy is used alongside these methods to teach attention and grounding techniques that can help with urges, stress, and mood regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sabrina will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may start with practical skill-building and shift toward deeper work if that better suits the client.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum while developing new habits.
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A practical next step
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