Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten, LMFT

About Sarai

Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with three decades of clinical experience. She trained at the University of Southern Mississippi, earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree. Christi brings a direct but compassionate style to sessions.

She emphasizes practical change and helps people identify what they want and how to get there. She looks at problems from several angles - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual - and encourages work in each area.

Background and approach

Christi draws on her background working in treatment centers, mental hospitals, and outpatient practice since 1993. Her experience includes supporting people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and addictions. In sessions she combines straightforward feedback with warmth.

She believes building purpose and tending to physical health support emotional growth. Christi also names faith as an influence in her life and clinical perspective. Her work often addresses relationship and family concerns along with parenting and intimacy-related struggles.

Additional areas of focus include stress, grief, eating and body image issues, codependency, and communication problems. She approaches each situation with practical tools and an eye toward real-life change. Christi is licensed as an LMFT in Alabama and maintains the credential MS LMFT T0027 and AL LMFT 428.

She offers services in English and conducts sessions using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair people with scheduling options.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes empathy and helping clients find their own solutions, which can help with self esteem, grief, and making life changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It offers concrete techniques for coping and communication that people can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend or combine methods that fit. This makes it easier to try tools that feel useful and relevant to daily life.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexible ways to meet. These options let people work on parenting, family, and relationship concerns from home or while balancing work and family duties. Sessions by message or chat can also make it easier to get steady support between appointments.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

She works with a wide range of issues including addictions, family and relationship problems, trauma and abuse, parenting, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, eating and body image concerns, and intimacy-related issues.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is warm and direct. She offers practical guidance, helps clients identify goals, and uses straightforward feedback to support change.

How long has she practiced?

She has worked as a therapist since 1993, bringing 30 years of experience across inpatient treatment centers, mental hospitals, and outpatient settings.

What credentials and where is she licensed?

She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with credentials listed as MS LMFT T0027 and AL LMFT 428, and she practices in Alabama.

Can sessions be conducted in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English.

Are online sessions available and in what formats?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats to allow different ways to connect.

How does cost and billing work?

Session cost varies with location and therapist availability. Services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 30 years
Licensed: Mississippi, Alabama
Languages: English

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