Saba Yaso - Oakland Hills Counseling

Saba Yaso, MA, LPC, CAADC, NCC

Saba Yaso

Professional Training and Credentialing

Saba Yaso, MA, LPC, CAADC, NCC, holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Medical School of Baghdad University in Baghdad, Iraq, and is fluent in English and Arabic. She practiced medicine/OBGYN in Iraq and Jordan. She also holds a Master of Art degree in Counseling from Missio Seminary, previously known as Biblical Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA (2019). Saba did her internship at Central Behavioral Health outpatient clinic in PA, then worked at Adults and Teen Challenge Christian Rehab in PA 2019-2022. After that, she worked at Onward Behavioral Health/Rehab between January/2022-June/2023. Saba then moved to Michigan and became a team member of Oakland Hills Counseling, LCC . Saba is Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Saba is Certified in Substance Use Disorder, in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, in trauma therapy, and Christian counseling. She is accepting new clients at this time for individual, couple, and group therapy, and works with wide range of mental health issues.

In addition, she is a Certified National Counselor (NCC) from National Board of Certified Counselor (NBCC) since 2021 and received a certification from Global Trauma Recovery Institute including international immersion in Rwanda, Africa since 2018.

Professional Experience

Saba cares for the client as a whole by using the Holistic approach of treatment. She uses different theories in treatment like the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory, person centered, Strength-based Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) while being psycho-educational…etc.

For Saba, Counseling is professional interpersonal relationship by which the counselor helps empowering diverse individuals, couples, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, relationships, education, and career goals. The counselor (professional helper) is educated, trained, and skilled to help the clients who share their issues and concerns with the counselor so both can cooperate in order to treat/resolve those issues (like developmental, situational, or more complex diagnoses) and help the clients achieve their goals. Saba’s education trained her in different models of counselling including Christian Interventions. Therefore, she can address the psychological, social, occupational, and spiritual aspects of clients and so my approach is the holistic approach.

She treated different age groups from (4-72) years old and different cultural/ethnic, racial, religious backgrounds. The adults whom she treated were struggling with substance abuse and or different mental illnesses like, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder… etc. Saba also passionate about couple counseling, play therapy with children, and family therapy. I worked in different clinical settings.

Personal Information

Saba is married and has one young adult child. Her passions are spending time with God, her family and friends. Saba is certified in floral designing from Temple University, Ambler, PA and she enjoys doing it so much.

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