About Sarah
Sarah Peters welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or anxious and want practical ways to feel better. She offers straightforward support for stress, low self-esteem, grief, and life transitions. Her style is calm and down-to-earth, with room for talk or creative expression depending on what feels right.
Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC - with 11 years of experience. She blends talk therapy with art and reflective writing when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning coping skills, managing strong emotions, and building confidence in everyday life. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps.
Dialectical behavior approaches are included to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Sarah has supported people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, intellectual disability-related challenges, and seasonal mood shifts. She also helps with social anxiety, relationship strain, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with room to explore feelings and try new responses. People who prefer a mix of talking and creative activity often find this approach helpful. Sarah meets clients in Illinois and offers sessions that match each person's pace and goals.
She focuses on small, workable changes people can put into practice between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and experimenting with different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Both approaches are practical and teach tools people can use between sessions to handle stress and worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods that fit their needs, goals, and pace. That way the plan evolves as progress is made and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer brief, written exchanges or who want to reflect between messages. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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