Sara Nielsen is a licensed counselor with nearly two decades of experience helping people cope with life’s hard moments.
01About Sara
Sara Nielsen is a licensed counselor with nearly two decades of experience helping people cope with life’s hard moments. She holds LCMHC and LCPC credentials and practices in Alabama. Her approach is warm and collaborative, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Sara works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and sleep problems, addiction, and mood concerns such as bipolar. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, career stress, compassion fatigue, and body image issues.
Background and approach
Her skill set includes attention to co-morbidity and patterns like codependency or hoarding. In sessions she blends approaches that fit each person’s situation. She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and direction.
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are added when people need emotion regulation and grounding skills. Sara describes her style as collaborative and nonjudgmental. People can expect guided conversation, concrete strategies, and homework when it helps.
She tailors pacing and tools to match each person’s goals and comfort level. She offers multiple online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits the person’s availability.
Her long experience makes her comfortable working through complex and overlapping issues with steady support.
02Credentials
- LPC (Missouri)
- License 2008025315 · expires June 2027
- LCPC (Kansas)
- License LCPC 2756 · expires September 2027
- LCMHC (New Hampshire)
- License 3364 · expires June 2028
- LPC (Alabama)
- License LPC04529 · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1598897464 · national provider identifier
Both are public records. A state board register will confirm a license and its standing, and the national registry will confirm an NPI. This directory copies what the counselor lists and checks neither.
03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Methods Sara names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Sara names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Sara commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking values-driven action even when feelings are hard, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for worry, low mood, sleep problems, and many daily challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before to choose or blend methods. This is a collaborative conversation and the plan can change as progress or new needs emerge.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face-to-face when helpful, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to match session format to the moment and keep momentum between sessions.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed?
Sara works with many issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and sleep problems, addictions, and bipolar concerns. She also helps with relationship strain, grief, career stress, body image, and communication problems.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and interactive, focusing on practical steps and guided conversation. Sessions mix skills practice with reflective discussion to meet each person’s needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 19 years of clinical experience working with a broad range of mental health and behavioral concerns. That background supports work with complex or overlapping issues.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds LCMHC and LCPC credentials and practices in Alabama. The profile lists NH LCMHC and KS LCPC as credential details.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are offered?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model. The subscription can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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