About Sarah
Sarah Porritt is a counsellor with ten years' experience working with adults and young people. She is a BACP member, which she follows for professional standards. Sarah aims to make the first steps into therapy straightforward and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed by daily stress or anxiety.
Her manner is down-to-earth and compassionate. Sessions are a place to talk through what matters, in language that feels ordinary and clear. She listens for practical patterns and helps people find small changes that can make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
Sarah uses evidence-based approaches including cognitive behavioural techniques, person-centred work, and mindfulness. She blends these to suit each person's needs rather than following a single method. This helps people address worry, low mood, and difficulties with confidence and life transitions.
Common topics she supports include stress, anxiety and overthinking, grief and loss, parenting strain, relationship communication, and self-esteem. She also offers help around attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic illness and caregiving stress, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Practical tools and simple strategies are offered between conversations so people can practice new ways of coping. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and book a time that suits them.
How Sarah adapts evidence-based approaches online
Sarah draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice thought patterns and test new responses. CBT-style work breaks problems into manageable steps and can be useful for anxiety, overthinking and low mood.She also uses person-centred ways of working that focus on being heard and understood. That approach supports people who need a calmer space to make sense of grief, parenting strain or relationship worries. Mindfulness practices are introduced simply to help with stress regulation and to reduce rumination.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Sarah will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. Together they plan practical steps and choose techniques to try, then review what helps most as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different routines. Video calls are useful for face-to-face discussion, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caring duties and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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