ABOUT SERENA COUNSELING
Thoughtful Therapy. Individualized Care.
Serena Counseling is a psychotherapy practice providing individual and family therapy for adolescents, adults, and seniors in Frisco, Texas, with telehealth available throughout Texas.
About Serena Counseling
We work with people navigating anxiety, ADHD and executive-functioning challenges, trauma and difficult past experiences, perfectionism and burnout, depression, relationship and attachment concerns, self-criticism and shame, and significant life transitions.
Our approach looks beyond a diagnosis or list of symptoms. Therapy is designed to help you understand the patterns beneath what you are experiencing, recognize how those patterns developed, and create meaningful changes that fit your life, relationships, values, and goals.
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Meet Atekeh Sadat, LCSW
With more than 14 years of professional experience in mental health and human services, I bring a broad clinical perspective to my work as a therapist.
My background includes psychotherapy, university counseling, crisis intervention, trauma-informed care, and supporting people through a wide range of emotional, relational, academic, career, and life challenges. I have also worked extensively with individuals affected by interpersonal and relational trauma, including sexual trauma and relationship violence.
I work with adolescents, adults, seniors, individuals, and families, and I am comfortable supporting both everyday challenges and more complex emotional concerns.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful and capable. They may appear to be doing well from the outside—working, studying, caring for others, meeting responsibilities, and accomplishing what is expected of them—while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, stuck, or disconnected.
Some have spent years overthinking, pushing themselves, trying to meet impossible standards, or taking care of everyone around them. Others understand their patterns intellectually but find that insight alone has not been enough to change them.
Therapy offers a place to understand those patterns more deeply and begin responding to yourself, your relationships, and your life differently.
MY APPROACH
Warm, collaborative, active, and individualized
Meaningful therapy involves more than talking about what happened or learning techniques to manage symptoms.
Together, we look at what is happening now while also exploring the experiences, relationships, beliefs, protective strategies, and emotional patterns that may be contributing to it. The goal is not simply to help you feel better in the moment, but to help you develop greater understanding, flexibility, and capacity for lasting change.
My work is evidence-informed and trauma-informed and may incorporate:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies
- Parts-oriented approaches
- Relational and attachment-based work
- Mindfulness and somatic awareness
- Emotion-regulation skills
- Self-compassion
Rather than applying the same formula to everyone, I tailor therapy to the person or family in front of me—their needs, history, culture, strengths, preferences, and goals.
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE CARE
A culturally responsive perspective
Culture, family, identity, community, immigration experiences, and expectations can profoundly shape how we understand ourselves and what we have learned to expect from relationships.
I approach these parts of a client's experience with curiosity and respect rather than assumptions. Therapy should make room for the context in which a person's experiences developed, not ask them to separate themselves from it.
CREDENTIALS & TRAINING
Atekeh Sadat, LCSW
Founder & Therapist
14+ years of professional experience in mental health and human services
Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT)
Evergreen Certifications
Certification #855907
DBT and other therapeutic approaches are integrated selectively within an individualized treatment plan rather than applied as a one-size-fits-all model.
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