About Sara
Sara Scruggs is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing family strains and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical steps rather than jargon.
She listens closely to understand each person’s story and priorities. Sessions often center on clear goals, small changes, and building coping skills.
Background and approach
Sara blends different ways of working so conversations stay useful and focused. Sara uses tools from client-centered work to keep the session grounded in the client's needs. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Mindfulness techniques to reduce reactivity.
These tools are used to help with everyday stress, self-esteem concerns, and challenges at work or home. People come to her for help with compassion fatigue, attachment worries, and relationship communication problems. She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
Sessions aim to strengthen decision-making and restore a sense of control. Sara believes progress happens through collaboration. She helps people set realistic steps and practices to try between meetings.
Her approach balances empathy with practical action so clients can notice small changes over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and stress support
Sara uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on what matters most to the client. This approach means conversations are led by the person seeking help while the therapist reflects back concerns and strengths, which can help with building self-trust and confidence.She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT helps identify patterns that fuel anxiety and offers concrete strategies to change them, useful for workplace stress, worry, and self-esteem work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will review goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person’s needs. If one approach doesn’t feel right, they can adjust and combine methods to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, and text or live chat can be shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work or family routines and to use formats that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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