Sarah Bakura

Sarah Bakura is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and life disruptions. She holds credentials as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and has six years of clinical experience. Sarah centers sessions on the person's own story and strengths. She aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and supported.

Sarah works with people facing trauma and abuse, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and bipolar challenges. She also helps with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, and problems with impulse control. Practical concerns like communication troubles, guilt, shame, and isolation are part of her focus as well.

Her approach draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals central. She pairs that with evidence-based techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed.

Sessions also incorporate mindfulness skills and emotionally-focused ideas to help notice patterns and improve connection with feelings. Sarah aims to help clients build small, steady changes they can carry into daily life. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where clients and therapist choose strategies that fit each person’s needs.

Sarah practices in Wyoming and conducts sessions in English. She supports people through periods of change and aims to help them find clearer ways to manage anger and other strong feelings.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and focuses on listening and reflection to help people clarify what they want to change. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and priorities.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small behavior changes to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and patterns that feed anger.

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and handling crises with less reactivity. It emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills for people who feel overwhelmed by strong feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first and will adjust those methods as goals and needs evolve. Clients and therapist set goals together and test tools that fit daily life.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins around work or caregiving responsibilities. It can also make it simpler to practice skills in real-life settings and bring issues into session that arise between meetings.