About Sarah
Sarah Smith is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people with anxiety and stress. She uses a warm, respectful style and believes people are the experts in their own stories. She greets the first step toward help as a brave choice and aims to make sessions feel manageable and practical.
Sarah draws on 14 years of experience working with issues like grief, self-esteem, career strain, addiction, and trauma.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how family history, attachment, and life transitions shape current struggles. Her approach includes practical tools for coping and problem solving rather than long lectures. In sessions she prioritizes the relationship itself.
Building trust and a strong rapport comes first, then targeted work follows. She blends plain conversation with exercises such as role play, stress management, and skill building to tackle communication or behavior patterns. Sarah uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
She also works from an attachment perspective to understand relationship patterns. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help clients find steps that feel doable and aligned with their goals. She invites people to bring their whole selves into therapy, including faith or spirituality when that matters.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Sarah practices in Connecticut and offers services in English and Haitian Creole.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people connect today. Online work can help identify patterns in relationships and practice new ways of interacting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It suits worries, panic, and low mood by focusing on clear steps and short experiments. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance so people feel understood while they sort through hard feelings.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that feel sensible and adjust as progress and needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, offering flexibility to fit different routines. Video is useful for fuller conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or fast coping prompts possible between longer sessions. These choices help people keep therapy consistent with work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Florida
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole
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