About Sarah
Sarah Bentley is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health practitioner based in New Mexico. She focuses on helping adults who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and other life disruptions. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people notice what keeps them stuck and find practical ways to change.
She begins by listening to the story behind the problem and identifying the early experiences that shape current reactions.
Background and approach
Sessions explore how past wounds influence beliefs, emotions, and everyday behavior. That process helps surface patterns that repeat across relationships and situations. Sarah uses methods that include attachment-focused work, client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and EMDR approaches.
She guides people to challenge unhelpful thoughts, practice different responses, and build new habits that fit their values. Work often includes building self-compassion and reworking old messages people carry about themselves. Her approach is collaborative.
Sarah invites clients to set clear goals and chooses techniques that match those goals. She also helps people manage practical problems like sleep, eating, substance use, or parenting strain as part of broader emotional work. With ten years of clinical experience, Sarah aims to make therapy understandable and usable.
People leave sessions with specific tools to try between meetings and a clearer sense of how to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape how people relate now. In online sessions this means talking through relationship patterns and practicing new ways of connecting and responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, then teaches clear exercises to shift thinking and behavior; it works well for anxiety, depression, and stress in video or phone sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will ask about your goals, symptoms, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions, share notes, or work through immediate questions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical coping skills and emotional growth.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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