About Sarah
Sarah Sifran-McClellan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and on related concerns such as depression, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Sarah aims to offer a calm, straightforward space where people can talk about what’s hard and find practical ways to cope.
She uses approaches that help people understand patterns in relationships and their own reactions. Sessions often look at attachment history and current relationship dynamics to make sense of recurring struggles.
Background and approach
Sarah blends client-centered listening with goal-focused tools to make small changes that matter. Practical skills are part of most sessions. That can include cognitive-behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thoughts and dialectical skills to manage intense emotions.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone is working through changes like substance use or other habits. Sarah also supports concerns tied to family background and caregiving strain, including adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and family-of-origin patterns. She works with people dealing with addiction, domestic violence aftermath, divorce and separation, and career stress.
Clients meet with her from Oklahoma, where she holds licensure. Sessions are offered in English. She combines a steady, respectful presence with concrete tools so people leave sessions with something they can try between meetings.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In short sessions this means talking through relationship history to notice patterns and try new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often uses brief exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person and adjust them over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions can be a flexible option. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and shared worksheets, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or times when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving duties and to keep consistent momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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