Sara Veldhuizen , LMHC

Sara Veldhuizen is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Indiana who helps adults navigate midlife transitions and other major life changes. She focuses on helping people understand themselves better and make meaningful, lasting changes. Her style is collaborative and reflective, so clients take an active role in sessions.

Sara works with people who are thoughtful and curious about their inner world. She helps clients notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behavior. That awareness becomes the starting point for different kinds of change, not just symptom management.

Her approach is insight-oriented and practical. She uses conversation to clarify what’s getting in the way and to set small, achievable goals. Therapy can include learning new ways to cope, shifting unhelpful thinking, and trying different actions between sessions.

Over 11 years of practice, she has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career questions, body image and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue.

Sara integrates client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions aim to balance understanding with steps toward change so clients leave with clearer insight and practical next moves.

How her therapeutic approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows the client’s concerns to help them gain insight. This approach helps people who want to understand why they feel stuck and to explore their inner world.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as needed.

Confirm the specific session options before booking, since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people work from familiar surroundings and schedule appointments around work or childcare without promising any particular format.