About Sarah
Sarah Hershey is an Ohio-licensed social worker with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful of each person's courage.
She creates a calm, open space for people to talk about hard things. Sessions are straightforward and centered on the person's needs. Sarah listens, reflects, and helps people spot patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach mixes practical tools with attention to feelings. She may use techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take small steps toward them.
Emotion-focused methods are used when relationship wounds or attachment issues come up. Mindfulness practices are offered to help reduce reactivity and build steadier coping. Together these tools support work on grief, anger, body image, and mood concerns.
Sarah pays attention to how family roles and communication affect stress and relationships. She helps people handle separation, control issues, codependency, and the strain of caregiving or compassion fatigue. Her style is patient and practical, aimed at helping people find clearer choices.
For those exploring therapy for the first time, she explains options and next steps in plain language. Sessions can include review of goals, skill practice, and checking progress so people can see what changes are helping.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Sarah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT involves looking at thoughts and behaviors, practicing small experiments, and trying new responses to reduce distress and improve mood or anxiety.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking committed actions even when difficult feelings are present. ACT helps people move toward what matters while learning to tolerate uncomfortable emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, try methods in sessions, and adjust based on what feels most useful. This is a collaborative process that centers the person's preferences and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text can work for quick check-ins, journaling prompts, or when someone prefers writing. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity when in-person visits aren’t possible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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