About Sara
Sara DeVaney is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience practicing in Oregon. She focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step easier. She builds a plan based on each person’s needs and goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical. She listens for what matters most and helps people find small, doable steps to feel steadier in day-to-day life. Sara uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action, and from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work collaborative and grounded in the person’s experience. People who come to her often want straightforward tools for managing anxiety, help working through past hurt, or support during life changes. She also offers approaches for motivation, coping with grief, and concerns such as addiction or ADHD-related challenges.
Sessions focus on what will help now and on building skills that last. Sara works in a respectful, nonjudgmental way and tailors conversations and goals to each person. She supports people as they try new strategies and notices what helps them move toward a more manageable, satisfying life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Sara uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small actions that match what matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety and life changes by shifting focus from avoiding discomfort to moving toward meaningful goals.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep stress and low mood going. CBT offers clear tools for managing worry, mood shifts, and patterns that interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow for brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while managing other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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