About Sara
Sara Schuessler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 14 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, down-to-earth presence and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and life transitions. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward so clients know what to expect from the start.
Sara draws on client-centered therapy to keep the person's goals central to the work. She combines that with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques help break problems into small, doable steps and build momentum toward change. Her background includes work in residential treatment settings, homes, and schools, which helped her develop skills for common concerns like parenting strain, relationship conflict, grief, and anger. She also supports people dealing with trauma and related symptoms using trauma-focused methods.
The variety of past roles means she is used to meeting people where they are. Sara keeps sessions warm and direct. She invites clients to name goals and then uses brief, practical strategies to move toward them.
For many, that looks like learning new coping skills, trying small behavioral experiments, and checking progress each week. Outside work she enjoys cycling, reading, streaming shows, and spending time with family and their dog. She welcomes those who want a straightforward, goal-oriented path forward.
How her approaches translate to online care
Sara uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the goals the client brings. That approach helps guide what happens each week and shapes the pace and focus of online meetings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which gives concrete tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT works well online for tackling anxiety, depression, and many ADHD-related challenges because it emphasizes short exercises and clear homework between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That conversation can happen during an initial session and be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow fuller conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text-based messaging can help with quick skill reminders or journaling prompts. Those options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while fitting sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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