About Sarika
Sarika Griffin is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience helping people through serious life stresses. She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and practices in Nebraska. Her work focuses on relationship challenges, trauma recovery, and rebuilding confidence after hard experiences.
Sarika aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. She listens to what matters most and helps clients set clear, doable goals. Conversations often cover coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking, and making everyday routines feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how early bonds and attachment patterns shape current relationships. That helps when addressing codependency, intimacy concerns, or patterns that repeat across relationships. Sarika also works with people facing grief, anger, and stress related to life changes.
People who worry about anxiety or depression can expect a mix of short-term strategies and deeper work. She uses methods that focus on the present while also uncovering patterns that carry forward from the past. Sessions are respectful of cultural background and the impact of discrimination or identity stress.
Her practice supports those navigating addiction, domestic violence history, sexual assault and other complex trauma. Sarika emphasizes collaboration, helping clients try practical steps between sessions and checking what does or doesn’t help. The goal is clearer choices, better coping, and a stronger sense of self.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and bonds. Online sessions can help identify repeating patterns and practice new ways of connecting that reduce anxiety in relationships.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. In remote sessions this approach creates space to clarify values, build self-compassion, and decide next steps at a steady pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean starting with problem-solving techniques and adding deeper attachment work as trust grows.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during conversations. Phone meetings can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, processing feelings between sessions, or when someone needs shorter, more frequent contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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