About Sarah
Sarah Tolley is a counsellor with ten years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has provided one-to-one and couple support in independent practice and educational settings. Sarah listens in a calm, approachable way and helps people feel steadier when life becomes overwhelming.
She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and depression. Sarah uses straightforward techniques to manage difficult feelings and to rebuild confidence after painful experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what matters to the client right now. Her background includes supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds and life stories. She has worked with pupils in schools, with adults from varied socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, and with members of the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities.
That experience informs a flexible, non-judgemental approach. Sarah often combines a focus on attachment patterns with client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural tools. She also draws on dialectical skills and EMDR when appropriate.
The choice of approach is matched to the person and the problem, rather than one set method for everyone. In sessions she aims to create a straightforward, steady pace. People can expect to talk through immediate stressors, learn ways to manage upsetting thoughts, and practise steps that build stronger self-worth.
She welcomes international clients and runs video, phone and message-based sessions.
How Sarah blends approaches for online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds still shape feelings today. It is useful when trust, closeness or abandonment worries keep appearing in relationships.Client-centred therapy centres on respectful listening and on helping the person lead the pace and topics of sessions. It is helpful for people who need a steady, non-judgemental space to talk and to find their own solutions.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives clear strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress because it teaches practical ways to respond differently.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sarah will discuss options with each person and jointly decide what to try first based on needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative discussion may lead to brief skills work, deeper attachment work, or EMDR elements for trauma if appropriate.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and hold more conversational sessions. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection and support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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