About Sara
Sara Lopes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Massachusetts. She brings eight years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and trauma. Sara aims to move clients toward practical relief while building confidence in themselves and the therapy process.
She centers sessions on the person's pace and priorities. Sara listens first to understand each person’s story. Then she chooses approaches that fit the person’s needs, focusing on useful skills and clear goals.
Background and approach
Her work often includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Client-Centered methods. Sara has a background that includes extensive work with people facing housing instability, serious mental health concerns, and substance use challenges. That experience shaped a practical, problem-solving orientation and an emphasis on respect and compassion.
She also draws on Narrative Therapy ideas to help people reframe difficult experiences. Sessions aim to reduce distress and create small, achievable changes. Sara emphasizes tools people can use between sessions, such as coping strategies, grounding practices, and behavioral experiments.
She speaks plainly and keeps goals concrete so progress is easy to notice. Her online schedule runs Monday through Saturday, with Sunday reserved as a personal day. For new clients she is currently offering messaging and live chat sessions rather than phone or video.
She welcomes questions and supports people who want steady, steady-paced work toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Sara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing alongside client-centered and mindfulness strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Motivational Interviewing helps people find personal reasons to change behaviors like substance use or smoking and builds confidence to take those steps.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust the plan as progress is noticed.
Online therapy offers a range of session formats to fit different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief sessions into busy days and to send notes between meetings. These options give flexibility for working on anxiety, coping skills, and behavior changes without rearranging a full day.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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