- Depression and mood concerns
- Strengths-based guidance
- Skills for emotion regulation
About Sarah
Sarah Bakura is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people navigate depression, anxiety, and life changes. She brings six years of clinical experience and centers sessions on the person in front of her. Sarah emphasizes that clients know their own stories and builds from their strengths to move toward clearer goals.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings, along with space to talk through painful experiences like trauma, abuse, and abandonment. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Sarah also draws on Client-Centered and Mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and more present. That can mean slowing down to notice difficult feelings, practicing grounding and breathing, or shaping small experiments that test new ways of coping. She adapts the mix of tools to what a person says they need and can try.
People come to her for a range of concerns beyond mood, including anger, low self-esteem, impulsivity, and relationship patterns such as codependency and attachment struggles. She also has experience supporting people living with bipolar conditions and disruptive mood challenges.
Sarah aims to make the first steps manageable. She listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, doable goals. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings, along with space to talk through painful experiences like trauma, abuse, and abandonment. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Sarah also draws on Client-Centered and Mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and more present. That can mean slowing down to notice difficult feelings, practicing grounding and breathing, or shaping small experiments that test new ways of coping. She adapts the mix of tools to what a person says they need and can try.
People come to her for a range of concerns beyond mood, including anger, low self-esteem, impulsivity, and relationship patterns such as codependency and attachment struggles. She also has experience supporting people living with bipolar conditions and disruptive mood challenges.
Sarah aims to make the first steps manageable. She listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, doable goals. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.