About Sabrina
Sabrina Shupe is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, and ADHD. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm, direct, and grounded in real-life experience.
She draws on roles in community mental health and mobile crisis outreach. Those jobs shaped how she responds in urgent or high-stress moments. Sabrina aims to make sessions feel like a steady conversation rather than a lecture.
Background and approach
Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and concrete strategies. She pays attention to patterns like attachment problems, abandonment concerns, and communication difficulties. Sabrina also addresses issues such as body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress in straightforward terms.
Her background as a woman veteran informs her perspective on service, balance, and resilience. Outside of clinical work she cares for a mini farm, plays volleyball, and spends time outdoors with family and friends. Those interests influence her practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy.
With four years of practice as an LCSW, she combines hands-on crisis experience with ongoing clinical work. The emphasis is on helping people feel seen and supported while working toward achievable changes. Sessions are aimed at helping individuals move forward with clearer tools and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building new coping skills. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as grounding, pacing, and problem-solving. These methods help people get through overwhelming moments and develop steady routines.Another useful strategy targets trauma and attachment issues by helping people name their reactions and practice safer ways of relating. This approach supports healing from past hurt and improves communication and trust in relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to identify specific goals and try techniques that match those goals and preferences. That cooperative process helps shape a plan that can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit everyday life. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual connection. Phone calls require less bandwidth and can work during a short break. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins and moments when shorter, written exchanges are easier. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to attend while keeping therapeutic progress central.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English