About Sara
Sara Khaledpour is a licensed professional counselor with licensure in both Missouri and Illinois and twelve years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, mood challenges including depression and bipolar symptoms, and a wide range of relationship and intimacy-related issues. Her practice also attends to concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, career struggles, compassion fatigue, and coaching for life transitions.
She emphasizes a warm, accepting therapeutic environment where clients can explore thoughts and feelings without judgment. Using evidence-informed tools, she collaborates with clients to build confidence, strengthen coping skills, and increase motivation for change.
Sessions aim to empower clients to pursue a more satisfying and meaningful life while addressing practical problems that interfere with daily functioning. Sara provides services in English and Persian and holds the LPC and LCPC credentials listed for Missouri and Illinois.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an empathic, nonjudgmental space where the client leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports personal growth; this approach helps people who need acceptance and exploration of values and identity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping skills development. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method that helps increase readiness for change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening internal motivation.Choosing the right approach is often a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each client to determine which combination of methods fits their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring, and will adjust the plan over time as progress and needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to receive consistent support without geographic constraints. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care during life transitions, while still working with licensed professionals committed to practical, evidence-informed treatment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English, Persian