About Sarah
Sarah Watt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 15 years in the field. She brings a calm, direct style and a steady presence for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, and life changes. Sarah wants to make starting therapy feel manageable and straightforward for someone worried and unsure where to begin.
She trained in counseling after completing a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in counseling from John Carroll University.
Background and approach
Her work history includes inpatient hospital settings, community mental health, residential treatment, school-based therapy, and outpatient practice. This range gives her a practical sense of how different problems show up in daily life. In session she focuses on clear, hands-on strategies.
She uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s goals, cognitive behavioral ideas to change patterns that cause distress, and trauma-focused tools when past events are interfering with day-to-day life. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Sarah has supported people with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, sleep problems, mood issues like depression and bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and struggles with substance use. She also addresses attachment wounds, codependency, infidelity, gender dysphoria, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sarah asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that fits both people.
How Sarah’s approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following a person's goals. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps prioritize what matters most, and adjusts pace to what the person can handle. This approach helps when someone needs emotional support and a clear ally.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In online sessions this often means setting small experiments, practicing new skills between meetings, and tracking progress with brief homework tasks. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood issues, and sleep problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behavior. Online work can include phone check-ins or short messages to reinforce skill use between full sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals and comfort. That plan can change over time as needs shift, and Sarah will check in regularly to make sure the approach still feels helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use facial cues and screen materials together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work for brief reflections, tracking progress, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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