Sepideh Pourhassani, LPC

Sepideh Pourhassani is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, parenting challenges, and changes in life. She works with adults and adolescents and pays attention to everyday thoughts and habits that shape coping and behavior. Her approach is practical and focused on small, doable steps that feel relevant to daily life.

She uses straightforward conversation to identify what is getting in the way of feeling better. Sessions often include looking at thought patterns, testing new habits, and trying short exercises between meetings. She encourages clients to set clear goals and track small wins over time.

With eight years of clinical experience, Sepideh has supported people dealing with trauma, depression, ADHD, relationship concerns, and substance use. She also pays attention to attachment, adoption and foster care issues, and multicultural stressors that affect emotional health. Her background includes work with adolescents who have emotional and behavioral difficulties as well as adults facing addiction.

Her style blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used when clients want help clarifying goals or making concrete changes. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

For someone juggling parenting, work, or recovery, Sepideh aims to make therapy feel like a useful part of daily life. She asks simple questions, helps prioritize small changes, and supports ongoing progress without overwhelming clients.

How therapy approaches can work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and to identify their own goals for change, which can be useful for stress, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and habits affect mood and behavior. In sessions, clients learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or impulsivity.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These exercises can help with anxiety, trauma symptoms, and everyday stress when practiced between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods that fit their goals and preferences. Clients and the therapist check in over time to adjust techniques as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm which session formats Sepideh offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Talk with the therapist about how sessions can be scheduled around parenting, work, or treatment needs to make therapy practical and sustainable.