About Sarah
Sarah O’Brien is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with nine years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, parenting strain, grief, trauma, or struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is warm and interactive and she encourages people to take an active role in change.
Sarah uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She listens first, then helps set small, manageable steps toward goals. Sessions focus on skills people can use between visits to reduce worry, handle strong emotions, and manage daily demands.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to attention-related concerns such as ADHD and to challenges that affect identity, including LGBT issues. She also supports people facing medical stressors, caregiving demands, body image worries, and the emotional fallout from loss or trauma. Sarah draws on client-centered approaches to tailor sessions to each person.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety and solution-focused ideas to build on what already works. For trauma-related memories she may use EMDR as part of an individualized plan. She offers sessions in English and meets with people through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sarah works collaboratively to help people set clear goals and find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client, helping people set their own goals and move at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. It teaches concrete strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills for anxiety, panic, and mood struggles.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, known as EMDR, addresses traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing. It is used when trauma or painful events are driving current distress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods fit the client’s needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration can change over time as goals shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people read facial cues and work in depth. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins and step-by-step skill practice simple. These options help people fit therapy into real life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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