About Sarah
Sarah Steingiser is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She offers a warm and interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She has six years of experience in a variety of settings, including outpatient care, child welfare, addiction treatment, nursing homes, and extended day treatment programs for children. That background gives her experience with a wide range of life challenges and emotional responses.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens without judgment and respects each person's story. She avoids stigmatizing labels and works to build a trusting, collaborative relationship. Conversations are tailored to the person in front of her rather than following a rigid script.
Her work draws on client-centered approaches, cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused work. That mix means Sarah can help people learn skills for emotion regulation, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and develop small, doable goals to move forward. Practical concerns like parenting stress, caregiver burden, eating and body-image worries, and coping with life transitions are common topics she addresses.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, anger, and issues around intimacy and communication. Sessions are conducted in English and offered to people living in Connecticut. Sarah emphasizes compassionate support, step-by-step planning, and active work between sessions when that will help reach a client's goals.
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. Online sessions using this approach involve reflective listening, open questions, and helping people make choices that feel right to them. This method helps when someone needs nonjudgmental support and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. In teletherapy, CBT includes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing new coping skills, and using short between-session exercises to build different habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Mindfulness-based work teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Online formats can include guided exercises, short recordings, and in-session practice to help manage overwhelm and improve emotion regulation.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients play an active role in shaping their care.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat offers brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that works best for you.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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