About Sarah
Sarah Wall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of hands-on practice in New York. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Her tone is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to make therapy feel practical and manageable for busy lives.
Sarah blends straightforward tools with listening and support. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and client-centered conversation to help people notice patterns and try small experiments.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, step-by-step skills, and finding what fits each person's day-to-day routine. Her background includes clinical social work and school social work, and she draws on that variety when people bring concerns about attention differences, addictions, grief, or family tensions. She also helps with issues such as low self-esteem, sleep problems, social anxiety, and life transitions.
The emphasis is on practical coping strategies rather than jargon or long lectures. Sarah is comfortable working through topics like codependency, communication problems, commitment questions, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She pays attention to how symptoms show up in relationships and daily tasks, then helps people build habits that reduce distress and improve functioning.
Work with her typically mixes skill practice, reflective talk, and problem-solving. Sarah offers messaging, live chat, phone, and video options so people can pick what fits their schedule. She aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer priorities and steadier days.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. It creates space to talk about what matters most and helps shape goals based on the client's priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses clear, practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change habits that get in the way of daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. Those skills can be used for anger, relationship strain, and intense mood swings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try a few techniques, and adjust methods together. This collaborative process helps match methods to what actually helps in daily routines.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper sessions with visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work, live chat allows real-time back-and-forth, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to do consistent work without long commutes or scheduling hurdles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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