About Sally
Sally Millsap is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. She supports people facing anxiety, stress, grief, parenting worries, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges. Sally writes plainly, listens carefully, and helps people find practical ways forward.
She draws on work from medical, hospital, and neonatal settings. That includes counseling after strokes, spinal cord injuries, and head injuries, and supporting NICU parents and high-risk pregnancies.
Background and approach
She has also led support groups for grief and parents of medically complex children. Sally uses approaches that focus on values, personal strengths, and concrete steps. She often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centered conversation and goal-focused solution work.
When trauma is part of the story she uses trauma-focused methods to address those experiences. Her experience includes inpatient rehabilitation, high-risk obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, and a child protection team in California. She has worked in multiple states and across medical settings, so she’s familiar with health-related stress and caregiving strain.
Sally tends to keep sessions practical and compassionate. She helps people prioritize next steps, manage intense emotions, and rebuild routines after loss or medical events. She also supports parents facing postpartum challenges and families adapting after major changes.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Her background is rooted in long-term social work practice, and she aims to make therapy useful and manageable for people juggling busy lives.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Sally often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with hard feelings.She also works in a client-centered way, focusing on the person in front of her. That means listening without judgment and following the client’s pace to build understanding and trust. Solutions-focused methods are used to set short-term goals and identify practical next steps for everyday problems.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they adjust methods over time to find the best fit for the problem and the person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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