About Sara
Sara Khaledpour is a licensed professional counselor with experience in Illinois and Missouri and 12 years in the field. She practices as an LPC and an LCPC and focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety and build healthier habits. Her approach is practical and encouraging, aimed at helping people take the first steps toward change.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations about what feels hard right now. She creates an open space for talking through difficult feelings without judgment.
How Sara works
Sessions are aimed at finding small, doable steps that fit a person's life and goals. Sara draws from several methods to match each person's needs, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. That mix helps address symptoms like low mood, sleep problems, eating concerns, and difficulties with motivation.
She also helps with trauma-related concerns, grief, intimacy issues, and managing anger. Her background includes supporting people with addiction concerns, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career or relationship stress. She also attends to additional concerns such as aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related adjustment, attachment difficulties, and codependency.
Her practice balances practical problem-solving with attention to values and meaning. Sara offers sessions in English and Persian and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She supports the work at a pace that fits each person, helping them set realistic goals and track progress over time.
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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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Persian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their priorities and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and uses practical exercises to reduce symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase present-moment focus.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging can help people keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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