About Sara
Sara Irwin welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma, relationship and parenting struggles, and other life changes. Sara is an LCPC and an LPC with 14 years of experience and works with people who need practical help and steady guidance.
Sara blends clear listening with problem-solving in sessions. She uses approaches that help people connect with their values, understand relationship patterns, and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Sara works
Conversations are focused and down-to-earth, with steps clients can try between sessions. Her background includes a master’s degree in Community Counseling and long experience in clinical and personal-practice settings. That experience has included work with trauma, substance use concerns, mood difficulties, grief, impulse control, and parenting challenges.
She also lists focused areas such as attachment issues, codependency, body image, caregiver stress, and coping after disasters. Sara often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to identify and shift patterns that keep problems going.
Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationship and intimacy concerns. Outside of work she spends time with her family, enjoys running, reading, travel, and being outdoors. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions from Nebraska.
Sara lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Sara works with
The areas below are the ones Sara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and practicing new skills to shift them. It often helps with anxiety, mood struggles, and impulse control. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationship patterns formed early still affect current connections and intimacy, and it supports learning new ways to relate.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to goals, concerns, and personal preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than following a fixed formula.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a shorter check-in when a full session is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, track progress, and get support in shorter bursts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or travel while using the same therapeutic tools and structure as in-person work.
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