About Yasaman
Yasaman Sherbaf is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy understandable and practical for busy families. Parents reading on a phone will find short, clear sessions that focus on real problems and small steps forward.
Yasaman uses approachable methods to help people manage mood, build self-esteem, and improve relationships. She draws on client-centered work to prioritize each person's goals and values.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral techniques are offered to spot thinking patterns that feed worry or depression and to test new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and managing intense reactions when they arise. Mindfulness tools help people notice their experience without getting swept away.
Existential ideas come into play when a person wants to examine meaning, purpose, or major life changes. Her background includes three years as a practicing clinician working with addiction, grief, trauma, and career questions. She also addresses compassion fatigue and concerns common to veterans and armed forces communities.
Sessions can focus on coping skills, communication changes, or recovery steps depending on what the client needs. Work in therapy is collaborative and straightforward. People can expect practical exercises, gentle challenge, and space to tell their story.
Progress is made one conversation and one manageable goal at a time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. Online sessions using this approach typically prioritize what the person most wants to work on and adapt exercises to the client's everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; it works well online because homework, thought records, and step-by-step experiments can be shared and reviewed between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and daily routines, then suggest techniques to try. That choice is collaborative and may change as needs evolve, with the therapist checking in about what helps and what doesn't.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face-to-face without travel and are useful for longer, interactive sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to send quick updates, do brief check-ins, or get reminders of coping strategies between meetings. These options help therapy fit real life and make it easier to keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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