About Sarah
Sarah Dubisar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and trauma. She works with adults who are facing life changes, relationship strain, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, or workplace stress. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth.
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings. She draws on 13 years of experience across medical social work, crisis assessment, hospice care, and emergency department work.
Background and approach
That background informs how she supports people through grief, end-of-life decisions, and serious medical issues. She also has experience with mood disorders, bipolar conditions, and panic attacks. Sarah uses cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice thoughts and take actions that match their values.
She blends client-centered listening with mindfulness exercises to reduce distress and increase moment-to-moment calm. Dialectical behavior tools are added when people need emotion-regulation and coping skills. Her work includes helping those dealing with caregiver stress, isolation, multicultural concerns, and challenges faced by veterans and first responders.
She has also supported people through divorce, career transitions, and questions about sexual orientation or non-monogamous relationships. Therapy is collaborative and tailored to each person’s goals. Sessions may include behavioral experiments, short coaching between visits, and concrete strategies for better sleep and daily routine.
Sarah also incorporates compassion for long-term conditions like chronic pain or disability. She brings a steady, experienced voice and practical techniques to help people move forward.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going, making it practical for depression, panic, and sleep issues. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with stress and emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will discuss your goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps. This means sessions can shift from skill-building to acceptance work or mindfulness practice as needed.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people work face-to-face when demonstrations or visual aids are helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health limitations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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