About Sarah
Sarah Behrens is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Texas. She has five years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She also supports people facing depression, relationship challenges, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
Her background includes work in varied settings such as a juvenile detention center and a psychiatric and substance use treatment facility. Those roles exposed her to a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges.
Background and approach
She draws on that experience when helping people sort through difficult feelings and decisions. Sessions with Sarah are practical and goal oriented. She listens for what matters most and helps people build small, doable steps toward change.
Conversations cover coping strategies, communication skills, and ways to reduce overwhelm in daily life. Her approach is collaborative and coaching minded. She helps clients set concrete goals, track progress, and adjust plans when things don’t go as expected.
She pays attention to factors like sleep, routine, and support systems that affect emotional health. Sarah works with many concerns related to identity and relationships, including LGBT topics, sexual health and consent, and communication problems. She also has experience with ADHD, trauma and abuse, sexual assault recovery, and issues around self-harm and shame.
Her aim is to help people move from stuck to stronger step by step.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online sessions
Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at clear, practical change. One approach focuses on skill building for anxiety and stress management, teaching breathing and grounding exercises, thought management, and stepwise exposure to reduce avoidance. Another approach emphasizes problem-solving and behavioral changes to address depression and addictive patterns, helping people set realistic goals and build daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods, track what works, and adjust the plan as needed so therapy matches real life demands.
Online therapy is offered through multiple formats to fit busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to work on anxiety, relationships, and daily routines from different locations and at different times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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