About Sara
Sara Villar Gonzalez is a counsellor who draws on a human-centred, experiential approach to help people facing anxiety and stress. She has nine years of professional experience and works with adults on a range of concerns including depression, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, and grief.
Sara is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom. Her style is straightforward and focused on what matters in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify what is causing distress and to build practical ways to cope. Sara encourages people to notice their strengths and use them when making changes or tackling recurring problems. Clients commonly bring issues such as trauma and abuse, eating and body image concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges connected to work or career.
She also supports people managing complex situations like cancer-related stress, caregiving strain, addiction, and bereavement. Issues around intimacy, commitment, attachment and communication are included in her work. Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor each conversation.
She treats each person as the expert of their own story and helps them find steps forward that feel realistic. The emphasis is on collaboration, practical coping strategies, and clearer decision-making. Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
International clients who speak English can take part, and appointments follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Sara commonly uses human-centred, experiential work that helps people notice patterns in their feelings and behaviour and try small changes in session. This approach is hands-on and focuses on what a person feels in the moment and how those feelings play out in everyday life, which can be useful for anxiety, relationship concerns and trauma-related distress.She also draws on evidence-based techniques to teach practical coping tools like breathing and grounding exercises, activity planning, and simple behavioural experiments. These techniques help with stress, panic, low mood and difficulties such as addiction or eating issues by giving clear steps to try between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences and day-to-day constraints, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues or a longer conversation are needed. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing, want flexible timing, or need brief, on-the-go support. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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