About Sara
Sara Figueroa is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience. She practices in Wisconsin and brings a background across child welfare, substance use, crisis intervention, sexual assault advocacy, and hospice and grief counseling. She uses straightforward, person-focused help to guide clients through difficult moments.
Sara keeps sessions nonjudgmental and practical. She centers each meeting on what the person needs right now and works together with them to set goals.
Background and approach
Her work is influenced by real-world experience with diverse communities, including LGBTQ people. She commonly helps people managing stress and anxiety, depression, grief, substance concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, caregiving strain, abandonment and attachment questions, and life transitions.
Other focus areas include self-esteem, anger, bipolar concerns, and coping after separation or loss. Her style blends client-centered conversation with goal-oriented tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice patterns of thought and behavior.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck in change, and narrative or solution-focused ideas help reframe problems and build short-term steps forward. Sara invites clients to shape their own treatment plan. Meetings are collaborative and tailored to each person’s priorities.
She encourages small, achievable steps and keeps the pace appropriate for each person.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's lead to understand what matters most to them. It helps people feel heard and guides the conversation toward what they want to change or understand better.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to notice unhelpful patterns and try different behaviors or ways of thinking, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to explore a person's own reasons for change. It can be useful when someone feels uncertain or stuck and wants to build motivation for things like reducing substance use or making other life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments happen together as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when conversation and visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, or more frequent touchpoints between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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