About Sarah
Sarah Garlick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with 18 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and life transitions. She offers straightforward, skills-based support and works alongside clients to find workable solutions.
Sarah trained at Boston University and completed a Master of Social Work in 1999. She has experience in program settings and independent practice, so she is familiar with different treatment contexts and everyday challenges.
Background and approach
Her background gives her a practical lens on coping and recovery. In sessions she emphasizes a trusting relationship first. That connection creates the space to talk through painful memories, current problems, and hopes for change.
She aims to make sessions collaborative so clients feel involved in deciding what to try next. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - which looks at thoughts and behaviors - with client-centered and attachment-based ideas that honor each person’s story. She also draws on solution-focused and mindfulness tools to teach concrete skills for sleeping better, reducing anxiety, and handling stress.
Sarah often helps people recovering from trauma, handling grief, navigating parenting and co-parenting challenges, and rebuilding self-esteem. She offers practical strategies alongside emotional support so clients can use tools between sessions. Her style is compassionate, direct, and goal-oriented.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and how early connections shape present behavior. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to help people notice patterns and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift them. It works well online through structured exercises, thought records, and homework between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the mind. These practices can be guided in real time and revisited in short messages or recordings.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Based on that conversation she will suggest methods to try and adjust them if needed, so care stays aligned with the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick reflections, brief coaching, and ongoing reminders between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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