Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten, LMFT

Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She trained at the University of Southern Mississippi and practices in Alabama. Christi brings a straightforward and caring style to sessions and helps people sort out stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship issues, and life changes.

Her approach looks at people as whole individuals - body, mind, emotions, and spirit. She emphasizes practical change and building purpose. Sessions are direct and honest while remaining warm and supportive. Christi encourages physical self-care as part of emotional growth.

Over three decades she has worked in treatment centers, mental hospitals, and outpatient practice. That background includes supporting people with depression, past trauma, eating and substance concerns, and problems tied to family of origin. Her experience includes addressing communication problems, codependency, and challenges after separation or divorce.

Christi uses familiar therapy methods such as client-centered counseling, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally focused work, and mindfulness practices. In sessions she helps people identify patterns, try new skills, and set small, achievable goals that fit daily life.

She brings personal life experience as a married parent to her work and frames spiritual belief as a resource some clients draw on. People who prefer a direct, caring therapist who connects practical steps with broader life meaning may find her style helpful.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort values, goals, and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses practical strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) introduces skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, daily routines, and what goals feel most important. From there she will suggest methods and adapt tools so they fit the person's life and preferences rather than applying a fixed plan.

Confirm current session options before booking, as session formats are not specified in this profile. Online work can make it easier to fit a session into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people use skills practice between meetings. Therapists can tailor sessions to focus on skill-building, problem solving, or deeper emotional work depending on what a client needs.