About Sarah
Sarah Plano is a licensed clinician in North Carolina with 17 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC). She focuses on practical, everyday concerns like stress and anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and career worries. Her approach is warm and respectful, and she tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation.
Sarah uses straightforward talk therapy that centers the person's goals and strengths. She often combines a client-centered stance with skill-based tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and short-term solution-focused methods.
Background and approach
That mix helps people identify unhelpful patterns and practice small, doable changes. In sessions she aims to make space for difficult feelings while also setting clear steps forward. She works with issues such as addiction, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Attachment and communication problems, codependency, and isolation are also common topics she addresses. She supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related concerns, fertility and blended family stress, divorce and separation, and the emotional fallout from disasters. Sarah also helps with anger, depression, and career transitions, and she offers coaching-style guidance when people want practical plans.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered in a variety of online formats. The therapist invites people to take the first step and complete a brief matching questionnaire to begin scheduling.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person and their experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what matters most, and helps the person name goals. This approach is useful for building trust and making space for difficult emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It offers practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for strengths and small steps that move a person toward their goals. Sessions often emphasize concrete next steps and short-term progress instead of long explorations of the past.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then shape sessions accordingly in a collaborative way.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit help into a busy life. Video lets people talk face-to-face; phone calls can be lower bandwidth and more flexible; chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options increase flexibility so people can choose the format that best matches their needs and schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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