Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten

Sarai "Christi" Webb-Vanderpoorten is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), meaning she is trained and licensed to help individuals, couples, and families strengthen relationships and navigate life challenges. She also brings experience as a Master Addiction Counselor, a mental health and integrative medical nutritionist, and a personal trainer and fitness instructor. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Southern Mississippi and approaches care with attention to the whole person, including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions.

Her style is supportive and compassionate while remaining direct and honest. She views therapy as a place to help people clarify what they need and want, understand what is getting in the way, and explore practical paths toward change. She emphasizes that meaningful change can support overall well-being, and she often encourages people to consider how purpose, self-care, and a spiritual foundation can influence resilience, confidence, and the ability to work through past experiences while moving toward the future.

Christi has worked as a therapist since 1993 and has spent 30 years supporting individuals and families facing concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction. Her background includes work in treatment centers and mental hospitals in both inpatient settings and outpatient private practice. She is licensed in Mississippi and Alabama and draws on her personal life experience as part of the perspective she brings to her work. As a Christian, she also believes faith can be an important source of strength and meaning for those who want that included in their healing process.