Star Hess-Cabarle

Star Hess-Cabarle is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and life changes. She frames care around each person's needs and aims to create a welcoming, nonjudgmental space for conversations about difficult topics. Star also brings a practical eye to health habits and body-image concerns because she values the mind-body connection.

Star draws on ten years of clinical experience to tailor sessions to the individual. She combines humanistic listening with practical techniques from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. She also uses methods aimed at safety and relapse prevention for people coping with substance use and trauma-related symptoms.

Her background includes a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition sciences and a NASM personal trainer credential, which inform her attention to lifestyle factors that affect mental health. She is trained in diversity and inclusion and works to ensure people of many backgrounds feel understood.

Star lists a broad range of focus areas such as attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, communication problems, eating and food-related issues, caregiver stress, and gender dysphoria. She also supports people working through divorce, domestic violence, and family of origin issues.

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Star practices in Florida as an LMHC and works collaboratively to find approaches that fit each person’s goals and day-to-day life.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Star often blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with dialectical behavior strategies to address unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and manage strong emotions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood, while DBT emphasizes practical skills for distress tolerance and emotion regulation. These methods can be useful for stress, anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, and addictive behaviors.

She also integrates humanistic listening and Seeking Safety strategies that focus on safety and coping when trauma or substance use are concerns. Humanistic work centers the person’s experience and values. Seeking Safety emphasizes present-focused skills to reduce risk and manage triggers without delving into traumatic memories before a person is ready.

Finding the right combination of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose approaches that match goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust methods as progress unfolds.

Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy schedules and reducing travel time. Video telehealth is mentioned in the biography, but confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to maintain regular appointments and apply skills between meetings, helping therapy fit into everyday life.