About Sara
Sara Gatlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee who focuses on practical support for stress and anxiety. She draws on seven years of experience to help people facing low self-esteem, career hurdles, depression, and life transitions. Her manner is respectful and direct, aimed at helping clients make steady progress.
She offers conversations tailored to each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can use between meetings, such as small behavioral changes, communication practice, and ways to manage anxious moments.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how shame, guilt, and self-image affect daily choices. Workplace pressures, relationship strain, and questions about life purpose are common topics. She helps people sort through impulsive reactions, loneliness, and the social anxiety that can hold them back.
Career concerns are approached with problem-solving and goal-setting that fit each person’s situation. Sara is attentive to attachment patterns and how they shape expectations in relationships. She also supports people working on forgiveness, self-love, and improving body image.
Her style combines practical skills with steady encouragement to try new ways of coping. Getting started is treated as a collaborative step. She aims to make early sessions simple and focused so people know what to try next.
Over time the plan adapts to progress and changing goals.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Many people find benefit from specific evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive-oriented methods help identify and shift anxious or negative thought patterns and teach practical coping tools for stress and social anxiety. These techniques are useful for worry, low mood, and workplace stress.Behavior-focused strategies emphasize small, achievable steps. Working on exposure-style practice for social fears, activity scheduling for depression, and gradual behavior changes for impulsivity gives clear homework and measurable progress. These approaches aim to build confidence through repeated practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn't.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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