Sara Powell
Practical counseling for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sara
Sara Powell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas. She brings four years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on common challenges such as stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and parenting concerns. She also addresses relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around addictions and self-esteem.
Sara believes people know their own stories and already carry strengths that can help them move forward. In sessions she listens for those strengths and helps clients use them to face problems.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making small, manageable changes rather than overwhelming homework. Parents and caregivers often seek her support for family conflicts, blended family issues, and challenges tied to adoption or foster care. She also works with people dealing with sleep or eating concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.
She is familiar with attachment and abandonment themes and supports people navigating control and communication struggles. Sara draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), and co-occurring conditions. Her sessions pay attention to symptoms like dissociation and patterns tied to avoidant or antisocial personality features.
She frames treatment around clear goals and steady progress. She offers services in English and can work with international clients. Practical steps for starting include completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session when ready.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Two common evidence-based techniques Sara uses are cognitive approaches that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change them, and behavioral strategies that focus on building new habits and routines to reduce stress, improve sleep, or manage mood. Each method is practical and goal-oriented, useful for anxiety, depression, mood swings, and everyday life challenges.She also draws on skills-based work that teaches emotion regulation and distress tolerance. These tools help when anger, overwhelming feelings, or caregiving stress get in the way of daily life. Sessions focus on learning concrete skills and practicing them between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sara will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and people in different time zones. Video and phone sessions allow for face-to-face conversation, while live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between meetings or use a format that feels easier for them. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a family schedule or long workday.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sara
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point