About Sara
Sara Veldhuizen is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Indiana who helps adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. She works with people who want to better understand themselves and make steady, meaningful changes in daily life. Sara uses a collaborative, insight-oriented style.
Sessions focus on noticing patterns, emotions, and the events that keep problems repeating. She prioritizes clear conversation and real steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach blends evidence-based tools with time to reflect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to build awareness of emotions and bodily reactions.
Solution-Focused techniques support quick, practical goals when someone needs immediate relief. In sessions clients can expect curiosity and gentle challenge. The work is active - clients are invited to think about how their history shapes current habits and to test new ways of responding.
Sara frames progress as steady learning, not instant fixes. She has 11 years of clinical experience and works with concerns such as parenting strain, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating and body image, ADHD, bipolar and mood disorders, and career stress. Therapy aims to help people name what matters, practice new skills, and find clearer direction in everyday life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead to build understanding and safety; it helps people explore emotions, values, and what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it suits anxiety, depression, and behavior change. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can help with stress and trauma symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adjust methods over time, combining insight work, skill-building, and short-term solution-focused steps as needed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred, live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try new skills in real life while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English