About Sara
Sara Torres is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Utah. She brings seven years of experience helping people facing addiction, trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. Sara emphasizes practical support and a respectful partnership in each session.
She sees the whole of a person's experience, noting how trauma, mental health, and substance use can connect and affect daily life. Sessions focus on recognizing strengths and building skills that make everyday routines more manageable.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and goal oriented, with room for emotion and reflection. Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. She aims to make therapy feel useful from the start, offering tools for coping with grief, anger, mood shifts, and low self-esteem.
She also works with people dealing with paranoia, personality disorder concerns, and effects of prejudice and discrimination. Her approach centers on acceptance and respect. Clients are treated as the experts on their own lives while Sara offers guidance, practical strategies, and steady support.
The tone in sessions is calm and direct, focused on progress that fits the client's pace. Sessions are available in English and Spanish and are offered through a range of online formats. Prospective clients choose a subscription plan and then schedule sessions according to the matching process and therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Many of Sara's sessions draw on evidence-based techniques that teach practical skills and help people process difficult experiences. One common approach focuses on coping skills and behavior change to reduce substance use and manage strong emotions; it emphasizes clear steps, practice, and short-term goals that can fit into daily life. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, which looks at how past harm affects current behavior and relationships and helps build safety, grounding, and gradual processing of painful memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Sara listens to each person’s goals, history, and preferences and then adapts methods in a collaborative way. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and adjusts the plan when needed so the work stays relevant and achievable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to improve access and fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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