Sara Khaledpour

Sara Khaledpour is a licensed professional counselor with experience in Missouri and Illinois. She has 12 years of clinical work helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She aims to offer a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can begin making small, useful changes.

Sara focuses on practical problems like stress, anxiety, and sleep difficulties. She also supports people coping with addiction, eating concerns, grief, and trauma and abuse. Her work includes attention to self-esteem, motivation, career stress, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.

Her approach values the person's own goals and pace. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when helpful to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns.

Sara also draws on trauma-focused ideas when past events are getting in the way of daily life. Mindfulness practices and existential questions help people find meaning and steady attention during hard moments. She pairs these approaches to match what a person needs right now.

Sessions are offered in English and Persian. Sara works with adults facing a wide range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. She encourages a collaborative process so clients feel involved in decisions about therapy.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the person's priorities. Online sessions can keep that same emphasis by giving space to talk about what matters most and choosing goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thinking, feeling, and behavior. In remote sessions CBT techniques like tracking thoughts, testing beliefs, and setting small behavioral experiments can be guided step by step by the therapist.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting as progress is made.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find online work helpful for fitting sessions into a busy week, keeping appointments that would otherwise be hard to attend, and using shorter check-ins when needed. Other practical benefits include avoiding travel time and being able to continue care across routine life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt methods like mindfulness exercises or CBT worksheets to work well in remote conversations.