About Sarah
Sarah Turnpaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes. She uses a practical, down-to-earth style to offer emotional support, encouragement, and tools for more balance in daily life. Sarah explains options clearly and focuses on small steps that add up to real change.
She draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and tailor sessions to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and needs to find their own reasons to change. Sarah has five years of clinical experience working with adults and adolescents on concerns such as trauma, grief, depression, self-esteem, and relationship or family stress. She also addresses issues like caregiver strain, chronic illness, first responder stress, and parenting challenges.
Her Virginia-based practice includes attention to ADHD, anger, and career transitions. Sessions are practical and goal-focused. People can expect clear suggestions, homework they can realistically try, and time to talk through feelings.
The aim is to build skills that fit into a busy life. Sarah offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. English is the working language.
She uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and helps new clients get started through a short matching questionnaire.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. Online sessions let Sarah hear your concerns and shape each meeting around your goals and rhythm. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and practice new responses. In remote sessions this often means reviewing examples, trying small experiments between meetings, and checking progress together.Finding the best approach is part of the work and will be decided collaboratively. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn't helped before, and how you like to work. Together you can try an approach and adapt it over time until it fits your needs and preferences.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed, and chat or text can suit brief updates or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around life demands.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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