About Sarah
Sarah Bennett is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. She speaks plainly and aims to help clients learn practical ways to manage feelings like anger, low self-esteem and overwhelm. Sarah mentions a particular interest in anxiety management and offers exercises and strategies clients can try between sessions if they wish.
Her counselling journey began in Sydney in 2009 where she trained as a telephone counsellor for Lifeline.
Background and approach
Back in the United Kingdom she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a University Certificate in Counselling at South Cheshire College, validated by Manchester Metropolitan University. She is an Accredited Member of the National Counselling Society, NCPS. Sarah has worked in schools and with bereavement services, gaining experience supporting young people and adults through loss and life transitions.
She carried out placement work at Reaseheath College and has volunteered with The Dove Service, a bereavement charity in Stoke-on-Trent. Her usual starting point is a person-centred style that places the client’s experience at the core. She blends that approach with cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness, relaxation and hypnotherapy where these may help.
She frames these as suggestions rather than strict homework tasks. Sessions are offered face to face in Nantwich and she also provides telephone and video call appointments. Sarah works with adults and older teenagers and aims to help each person find practical steps to feel steadier day to day.
Approaches used online and how they help
Sarah works from a person-centred foundation which means sessions focus on what matters to the client and are paced around their needs. This approach helps people feel heard and build trust before trying new ways of coping.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and then try small, practical changes. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and problems like sleep or negative thinking. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and improve calmness; it suits clients who want practical strategies to manage stress.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and suggest techniques as possibilities rather than mandatory tasks. Together they will decide what feels most helpful based on the person’s goals and preferences.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions around work, study or caring responsibilities. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when bandwidth is limited, while text-based messaging suits ongoing support between appointments. Video calls allow face-to-face contact without travel, giving more flexibility for regular sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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