Sabrina Shupe, LCSW

Sabrina Shupe is an LCSW who helps people managing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, and ADHD. She understands how overwhelming day-to-day thinking patterns and habits can feel. Her style is calm and direct, focused on practical steps that make a difference in everyday life.

She came to therapy work after leaving the military and carries that commitment to service into clinical care. Her background includes work at a community mental health center and time on a mobile crisis outreach team. That experience shaped how she responds in urgent situations and in steady, ongoing work alike.

Sabrina describes her approach as compassionate and grounded. Sessions focus on listening first, then identifying thoughts and habits that keep problems going. She helps people try simple changes and small experiments to shift routines and thinking patterns over time.

Her clinical focus includes a range of concerns beyond core mood and anxiety issues, such as attachment and abandonment questions, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, and matters related to kink and alternative sexual culture. She also brings experience supporting people facing adoption and foster care issues, and those working through personality and co-morbidity challenges.

Outside of work she is a woman veteran who enjoys life on a mini farm, playing volleyball, reading, and spending time outdoors. She aims to walk alongside people wherever they are in their mental health journey, helping them build clearer habits and steadier thinking patterns.

Practical approaches for changing thoughts and habits

Evidence-based techniques focus on how thoughts and routines shape feelings and actions. One common approach addresses unhelpful thinking patterns by helping people notice automatic thoughts, test them, and try alternative ways of thinking. This kind of work is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress that comes from repetitive thoughts.

Another approach looks at daily habits and behaviors. It uses small, manageable experiments to change routines that keep problems going. That method can help with ADHD-related organization, chronic stress, sleep routines, and building healthier self-care habits.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. This is a collaborative process, with adjustments made as progress is tracked.

Please confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce travel time, allow quicker check-ins, or make scheduling around work or caregiving easier. Ask about specific session formats when you start the matching questionnaire so you know what will work best for your routine.