About Sarah
Sarah Hope is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who centers her work on practical, evidence-based techniques. She draws on ten years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, addictions, and life transitions. Sarah writes and talks plainly about challenges, and she aims to make therapy understandable and usable from the first session.
She learned early that vulnerability can lead to growth. Personal experience with anxiety and depression shaped her decision to become a counselor and informs how she relates to clients.
Background and approach
That history helps her understand what it feels like to be stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. Sarah’s background includes work in drug and alcohol rehabilitation and counseling on Chicago’s West Side with people facing homelessness and severe mental illness. She has provided individual and group support and has administered neurofeedback in independent practice settings in the Chicago suburbs.
Her experience also includes work developing services for LGBTQ clients in the Chicago area. Therapy with Sarah blends straightforward, practical tools with broader meaning work. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas alongside humanistic and existential perspectives to help people change patterns and find purpose.
Sessions often include skill practice, reflection, and occasional personal examples to normalize the process. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that balances professional boundaries with warmth and humor. Sarah supports goals like improving sleep, managing panic, reducing substance use, improving relationships, and building self-esteem.
She aims to make therapy a clear, manageable step toward feeling more in control.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Sarah uses approachable, evidence-informed techniques to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. Cognitive behavioral ideas focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce worry and panic. These techniques are useful for social anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and low mood.She also draws on humanistic and existential perspectives to help clients find meaning and clarify values. That work involves questions about purpose, life choices, and how to live more in line with what matters, which can be especially helpful during major transitions or identity questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She discusses options, tries practical tools, and adjusts the plan together as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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