About Sarah
Sarah McGlashan is an AASW social worker who focuses on easing anxiety and stress. She draws on six years of clinical experience to help people manage worry, low mood and life changes. Sarah uses straightforward language and practical tools so conversations feel useful from the first session.
Sarah uses a collaborative, strengths-based style. She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, manageable goals. Sessions often focus on building confidence, improving coping strategies and addressing relationship strain or workplace pressure.
Background and approach
Her approach blends cognitive behavioural ideas with mindfulness and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practise new reactions and regulate intense emotions. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs support finding direction or staying committed to change.
Sarah has worked across the mental health field for six years. That experience includes supporting people through trauma, postpartum and pregnancy-related concerns, and mood difficulties. She also helps with career questions, self-esteem, social anxiety and finding life purpose.
Sessions are offered in English and run by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a session that suits them. Sarah aims to create a calm, practical space where progress is steady and realistic.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's priorities at the centre of conversations and focuses on understanding each person's experience. It helps when someone needs a non-judgemental space to talk and clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful responses, which is helpful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) provides practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, and is useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through your goals, preferences and current needs to decide which methods to try first. Sessions can adapt as those goals change, combining techniques from different approaches when that fits the person's progress.
Online therapy through video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family and caregiving. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen-share worksheets. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Messaging and live chat suit shorter updates, goal tracking and quick skill practice between longer sessions. These formats support ongoing work without the need to travel to appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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