Sabrina Mayes

Sabrina Mayes is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on practical, evidence-based methods to help people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and anger. She emphasizes strengths and practical steps rather than labels. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging to people who feel stuck or unsure about starting therapy.

With eight years of professional experience, Sabrina uses short-term tools and skills people can apply between sessions. She often teaches techniques for coping with strong emotions, managing cravings, and reducing worry. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, achievable changes that add up over time.

Her approach pulls from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and teach emotion regulation. Mindfulness methods are used to increase awareness and reduce impulsive reactions. Motivational interviewing helps people find reasons to change when they feel ambivalent.

Sabrina also uses solution-focused strategies to set concrete steps and track progress. She works with issues around relationships, parenting stresses, grief, self-esteem, ADHD challenges, codependency, and communication problems. People learn practical skills for handling control issues and family conflict.

She is licensed in New Mexico as an LCSW. Sessions are guided by the client’s goals and paced to their comfort. To begin, a person can use the site’s matching process and schedule according to the listed availability.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It teaches practical exercises people can practice between sessions to change thinking and behavior.

DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. It includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help with anger and relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, values, and day-to-day needs and will adjust techniques as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing commute time, allowing shorter check-ins on a phone, or letting people schedule appointments around work or caregiving. Many people find it easier to practice skills between sessions when therapy fits more naturally into their routine.