About Sabrina
Sabrina Vonderhaar is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on practical, person-centered help for addiction and related concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she helps people find realistic ways to change harmful patterns.
Sabrina uses approaches that emphasize the person's own goals and strengths. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and on motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and solution-focused strategies are also part of her toolbox when they fit a client's needs. Her work commonly addresses substance and process addictions, including drug and alcohol issues and behavioral overuse such as gambling or pornography. She also helps with mood and anxiety concerns, grief, relationship and intimacy questions, body image, and problems like codependency and isolation.
Coaching-style support for career shifts and coping with life changes is available too. Sabrina has four years of clinical experience and practices from Iowa. She communicates in English and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on therapist availability. The process is collaborative: goals, pacing, and the kinds of tools used are chosen together so the plan fits the person's life.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps shape goals that matter to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and uses clear exercises to try different ways of responding. Those techniques are useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and patterns that fuel addiction.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that fit the client's goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, motivational work, or mindfulness in any given phase of care.
Online sessions make this work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual contact is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes, get quick support between sessions, and work at a pace that fits their day. These formats help people access care from wherever they are in Iowa and fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also works with
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English