Sepideh Pourhassani, LPC

Sepideh Pourhassani is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and other difficult life challenges. She works with adults and adolescents and aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can talk honestly about what’s hard. Her style is practical and focused on steps people can use between sessions.

She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered work, and mindfulness to address symptoms and habits that get in the way of daily life. Sessions often include simple behavioral experiments, thought tracking, and short exercises to build coping skills. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals.

Her background includes eight years of clinical experience in Tennessee. That work has covered addiction, trauma and abuse, mood concerns, ADHD, and parenting-related stress among other issues. She understands how shame, guilt, and past wounds can shape choices and relationships, and she helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck.

Practical concerns like managing anger, handling relationship problems, improving self-esteem, or coping with career stress are common topics. She also supports people facing multicultural challenges, adoption or attachment issues, and the specific concerns of veterans and those affected by discrimination.

Sessions are offered in English and Sepideh accepts international clients. She encourages small steps and regular practice, so progress feels steady instead of overwhelming.

Evidence-informed approaches for online care

Sepideh commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, test new behaviors, and build calmer daily routines. CBT involves tracking thoughts and behaviors and trying small experiments to change patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, and habit change. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.

She also draws on client-centered principles, which prioritize the person's experience and choices in shaping goals. Deciding which approach or mix to use is a collaborative process. She works with each person to match methods to their needs, preferences, and goals, and adjusts as progress unfolds.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and use of worksheets or screen sharing. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging work well for brief updates, tracking progress between sessions, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.