About Sarai
Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She practices in Alabama and draws on a broad background that blends mental health, nutrition insight, and fitness awareness to support overall well-being. She views people as whole beings - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Sessions aim to identify what is most important to the client and focus on realistic change. Christi describes herself as warm and compassionate while also direct when clear feedback is needed.
How Sarai works
Her work covers concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues around eating and body image. She also helps with parenting strain, communication problems, codependency, impulse control, and the stresses that come with life transitions. Christi uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally focused methods, and mindfulness practices.
She adapts methods to fit each person’s goals and situation rather than following a single formula. Her past roles include inpatient treatment centers, mental hospitals, and outpatient independent practice. The combination of long-term clinical experience and personal life roles informs how she supports people as they rebuild confidence, find purpose, and manage everyday challenges.
Sarai lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sarai works with
The areas below are the ones Sarai selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
How her approaches guide online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening to the person and building sessions around their needs. It helps when someone wants therapy that follows their pace and priorities rather than a rigid plan.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and problems with habits like eating or substance use.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, combines skill teaching around emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It is helpful when impulsivity, intense emotions, or relationship struggles are central concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods together to see what fits best. That collaborative process lets sessions shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or help when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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