About Sarah
Sarah Bakura is a licensed counselor who focuses on somatic-informed work and talk therapy to help people navigate distress. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and brings six years of clinical experience in Wyoming. Sarah centers clients' own knowledge about their lives and priorities during each session.
She helps people who are coping with trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, mood instability, and strong feelings like anger. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem struggles, impulsivity, isolation, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sarah uses practical tools so people can notice what is happening in their body and mind and try new responses. Her approach blends somatic awareness with client-centered listening and skills-based strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That mix aims to help people manage emotions, reduce reactive behaviours, and build steady coping habits.
Sessions include both exploration and concrete practice. Sarah also works with concerns tied to attachment and relationships such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and forgiveness. She is experienced supporting people with dissociation and some disruptive mood symptoms.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth: she asks questions, offers reflections, and teaches practical exercises. To begin, she invites people to name the problems that feel most urgent. From there she helps set clear, reachable goals and adapts the work as needs change.
The focus is on small steps that add up to more stability and self-trust.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice bodily sensations and the ways the body holds stress. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, grounding exercises, and attention to movement or tension to reduce overwhelm. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each persons priorities; the therapist follows what the person brings and reflects it back to deepen insight. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize body-based practices, talk-focused reflection, or skills training, and that plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility for different needs. Video lets the therapist see body cues and practice somatic exercises, while phone or text can suit people who prefer less visual contact. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins and skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try approaches that feel manageable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Nevada, Delaware, Montana
- Languages
- English