Sara Schuessler
Support for parents and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sara
Sara Schuessler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, trauma, and related issues. She offers straightforward, practical support for parents and caregivers who feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck. Her approach is warm and collaborative, aimed at helping families find clearer routines and calmer responses.
Sessions are paced to fit what each family or individual needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Sara brings 14 years of clinical experience in varied settings including residential treatment, homes, and schools. That background shaped her work with children, teens, and adults facing school problems, behavioral challenges, and family conflict. She combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused methods to set small, actionable steps.
In practice she helps families address parenting difficulties, blended family dynamics, attachment concerns, and behavior related to ADHD. She also supports people managing grief, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions. The tone in sessions tends to be direct and supportive, focusing on skills families can try between meetings.
Sara earned her Master of Arts in Counseling from Missouri Baptist University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Truman State University. She holds the Missouri LPC credential MO LPC 2010016635. Her experience includes trauma-focused work and interventions suited to people recovering from difficult events.
Outside of work she enjoys cycling, reading, and family time. Her style is approachable and focused on the goals families bring to therapy.
Therapeutic methods and online family support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the family or individual's lead, helping them set their own goals and deciding together what to work on. This approach helps when parents want respectful space to talk through worries and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, anger, low mood, and habits that make family life harder by introducing small experiments and new routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each family to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily realities. That means adapting tools over time and checking in about what is and isn't helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet when life is busy. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations from home, phone sessions can work for brief check-ins, and live chat or text messaging can support quick coaching or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling family schedules.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sara
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- Stop at any point