About Sabrina
Sabrina Mayes is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on practical therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and mood challenges. She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused, listening for strengths clients already bring to their lives. Sabrina recognizes the courage it takes to begin therapy and aims to make that first step feel manageable for each person.
With eight years of professional experience in New Mexico, she has worked with people coping with trauma and abuse, anger, and substance-related problems.
Background and approach
She also helps those dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressure, and difficulties with attention and self-worth. Her approach combines structured skills with short-term goal work so people can notice change sooner. Sabrina uses a mix of techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She blends elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods guide conversations about change and next steps. In sessions she listens first, then helps set clear, practical goals.
She offers tools you can try between meetings and checks progress together. People leave sessions with concrete steps to practice and ways to handle setbacks more easily. Her work style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Sabrina centers what matters most to each person and adapts strategies to fit real-life routines and responsibilities.
Using practical approaches online to build skills and cope
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and habits related to addiction. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to help when emotions feel overwhelming. Mindfulness therapy brings simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they try strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps most in day-to-day routines.
Online sessions offer options that fit busy lives. Video calls let the therapist see and hear subtle cues during a longer conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting support between longer meetings. These formats make it easier to build consistent practice and access help without rearranging a whole day.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English