About Sara
Sara Griffith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with two decades of experience in California. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or big life changes. Sara writes in a warm, straightforward way and helps people find practical steps forward.
She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work often helps with relationship struggles, parenting challenges, abandonment concerns, and issues tied to adoption or foster care.
Background and approach
She pairs that with Solution-Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to identify strengths and small, doable changes that make daily life easier. Sara has long experience supporting parents through the early years, including postpartum concerns and the stress of new parenthood. She also works with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood challenges, attention differences, and family of origin problems.
Her approach emphasizes safety, gradual emotional work, and building coping strategies. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. Clients can expect a mix of reflective conversation and concrete tools to try between meetings.
Sara pays attention to patterns that repeat across relationships while helping clients set short-term goals that feel achievable. Over 20 years in practice has given her a wide set of tools and a patient style. She encourages growth through small steps, steady skills building, and ongoing support tailored to each person’s situation.
Attachment and solution-focused care, delivered online
Sara uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns, helping people understand why they react the way they do. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to clarify goals and strengthen the motivation to change by exploring values and small steps. Solution-Focused Therapy targets practical, short-term goals and builds on what already works in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on attachment history, motivation and behavior change, or concrete problem-solving in early sessions and then adapt as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send updates between meetings or check in without scheduling a full session. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week while still getting focused support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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