About Sarah
Sarah Hall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on practical, short-term strategies to ease daily stress. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people manage anxiety and other life challenges. Her tone in sessions is warm, direct, and respectful.
She uses clear, hands-on tools from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people make values-based choices when stress feels overwhelming. Sessions are goal-oriented and focused on what will help right now. Sarah has worked in both independent practice and agency settings.
That experience includes helping people with grief, trauma, mood concerns, addictions, and parenting stress. She has also supported people facing family-of-origin problems, attachment issues, and concerns related to adoption and foster care. Her style centers on listening first, then building a plan together.
She emphasizes respectful boundaries and attention to cultural differences. Clients can expect straightforward feedback and practical steps between sessions. Outside of her clinical work she balances family life and personal interests.
She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri and a Master of Education from Stephens College. With a decade of practice, she aims to help people find more calm and clearer direction in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches skills to clarify personal values and take small steps toward a more meaningful life even when anxiety or stress are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, combines emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships. Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan when needed. Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit care into a busy life while using ACT, CBT, or DBT techniques in real time.Questions people ask
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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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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