About Sarah
Sarah Lamie is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She helps people struggling with grief, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things feel easier and less judgmental.
Sarah uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness tools are offered to help slow things down and manage intense emotions in the moment. Across 18 years of practice Sarah has worked with people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. She also supports those coping with aging and end-of-life concerns, traumatic brain injury, and women’s health issues.
Sessions address both the immediate stress and the longer-term adjustments that follow major life events. Conversations in sessions are practical and goal-focused. Sarah often helps people set small experiments to test new ways of thinking or acting.
She balances listening with gentle guidance so clients leave with concrete next steps. Therapy typically unfolds at a person’s pace, with choices about techniques and tools based on what feels most useful. Sarah emphasizes collaboration, clear goals, and steady progress toward a calmer, more manageable daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client; in online sessions this means the therapist asks open questions and reflects what she hears to help people clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses short exercises to test new ways of thinking; it is helpful for anxiety, stress, and mood changes because exercises can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods together to see what fits a person's needs and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques and set meaningful goals as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can work for short updates, symptom tracking, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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