Rated 4.9 stars out of 5, 34 ratings

Sascha Kyssa

LMFT, 7 years of experience

Intelligent
Empowering
Authentic
Virtual
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About me

I'm a licensed psychotherapist that has worked in both private practice and intensive in-patient settings. Having first hand experience recovering from traumatic stress, I'm highly motivated and inspired by supporting my clients in finding relief from mental and emotional suffering. I offer a holistic evidence-based approach to therapy, providing a practical and grounded space free of judgment. The clients I work with report feeling greater relief, self-compassion, motivation, and insightful changes in thinking and feeling.

Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

My primary goal in a first session is to establish a healing space with my clients built on empathy, understanding, and trust. I’m here to listen, engage, and work with you in your journey toward greater healing and self-discovery.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

The ability to recognize that the client has within them the seeds to their own recovery and that they are the expert of their own life. It's my job to ask the right questions and listen carefully to what the client is desiring for themselves and help them get there.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

I specialize in working with adults recovering from traumatic stress, and the associated symptoms of grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and addiction.

Specialties

Top specialties

Other specialties

AddictionSpirituality

I identify as

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My treatment methods

Trauma Informed Care

CPT Certified. EMDR Certified. Extensive experience working with Veterans and at-risk populations in in-patient and out-patient settings using evidence based trauma therapies.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Over 20 years of personal mindfulness practice. MBSR certified (Stanford). Supporting awareness and presence as the necessary prerequisite for insight and integration of mental health distress.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

6 years experience utilizing parts work (Ego State Interventions, IFS) successfully with clients - supporting connection, understanding, and relief from mental health distress.

Strength-Based

Certified in SFBT and short-term solution-focused interventions. Extensive experience in hospital/in-patient settings, as well as community mental health and out-patient work. Supporting clients through orientation towards existing strengths and wisdom necessary for effective recovery.

Somatic

Extensive experience supporting clients through mind-body therapies and body-based psychotherapeutic interventions. Supporting relief from mental health distress through body-based processing and integration.

Location

Virtual

Licensed in

Rated 4.9 stars out of 5, 34 ratings

4 ratings with written reviews

May 13, 2025

Sasha helps me find my strengths, my inner balance, quite easily then he continues to build on that to enhance my ability to deal with my troubles.

Verified client, age 65+

Review shared after session 14 with Sascha

March 4, 2025

The insights I am getting from Sasha have been helping me understand several "whys" I have been feeling. His approach is flexible based on what I reveal; he adds storytelling to illustrate my current dilemmas. Then there are times when somatic therapy comes into play, and if I need him to slow down, he corrects himself.

Verified client, age 55-64

Review shared after session 5 with Sascha

February 21, 2025

Sascha is a skilled listener. It is clear that he is right there with you. He has the ability to ask key questions that allow me to continue into deeper levels of whatever we may be exploring.

Verified client, age 65+

Review shared after session 5 with Sascha