About Sara
Sara Kamalipour is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 10 years of practice based in Texas. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and recover from trauma and abuse. She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical steps people can take between meetings. Sara helps people set goals and tries to keep work straightforward and useful.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, and challenges around parenting and caregiving. Eating, sleeping, and chronic illness concerns are part of her practice too.
Sara uses approaches that emphasize the client’s perspective and practical skills. She draws on methods that help people change thoughts and behaviors, build coping skills, and stay motivated for change. The goal is better day-to-day functioning and clearer next steps.
People who seek a calm, respectful tone often fit well with her style. She offers sessions in English and provides care through several online formats. She works within Texas and holds the LCSW credential.
How different therapy methods work online
Sara often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on the person’s own goals and understanding. This approach means sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping people name what matters to them.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT gives simple tools to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice new behaviors between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when people need skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication in difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging help keep momentum between longer meetings and can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English