About Sarah
Sarah Cooper is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 12 years of experience. She focuses on reducing stress and anxiety and helping people manage painful life events. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for busy lives.
She uses tools from client-centered work to help people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness skills help with strong emotions and building steadier routines. Sarah often supports people facing addictions, grief, trauma, and relationship strain. She also helps with sleeping problems, parenting stress, career shifts, and coping after major life changes.
Her background includes working with issues tied to attachment, codependency, and chronic illness as well. Sessions are practical and goal-focused. Conversations include skill practice, simple experiments between sessions, and repeated check-ins about what is or isn’t working.
She aims to make progress feel manageable rather than overwhelming. People can expect a straightforward and compassionate style. Sarah works in English and accepts international clients.
She tailors methods to each person’s needs and life circumstances, focusing on what helps most in day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so a person feels understood and guided. Online sessions using this approach prioritize space to tell your story and set goals together, which can help when anxiety or stress makes talking feel difficult.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts and patterns that keep problems going and then try small behavioral experiments. In remote sessions CBT work often includes brief between-session tasks, thought records, and practical steps to change routines that affect sleep, worry, and mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Delivered online, DBT emphasizes short skills practice, emotion regulation exercises, and regular check-ins to build steady habits over time.
Finding the right mix of methods is a team effort. The therapist will review your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest a plan. That plan can change as progress is made or new challenges emerge, and decisions are made together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues and fuller conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching-style work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving schedule, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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