About Sara
Sara Curtis is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and keeps sessions grounded. Sara aims to make starting therapy less intimidating for someone who is worried or unsure.
Sara uses a client-centered approach that lets each person set the pace. She listens for what matters most and helps people find practical ways to cope. Sessions often include goal-setting and small steps to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit. That approach looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers concrete skills for changing unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are also used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
Sara has 11 years of experience in mental health work in Wisconsin. That background includes supporting people dealing with trauma, relationship strain, grief, and changes like career shifts or caregiver stress. She also addresses concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, substance use, ADHD, mood concerns, and issues related to identity and intimacy.
Sessions are conversational and practical. She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and practices new strategies between meetings. The goal is to leave each session with a clear next step and tools to try in daily life.
How therapy approaches work online
Sara often combines client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people address anxiety and stress. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and tailoring the pace to each person's needs, which helps build trust and clarify goals. CBT focuses on spotting patterns of thinking that increase worry and practicing specific skills to change those patterns and behaviors.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when strong emotions or difficulty tolerating distress get in the way. DBT skills teach ways to regulate intense feelings, cope through crises, and improve interpersonal effectiveness. Together these approaches give both understanding and practical tools to try between sessions. Finding the right mix is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to decide which tools and methods fit their goals and daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions can be a quieter option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coaching, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These formats help make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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