About Sarah
Sarah Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 12 years of experience helping people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She works with individuals facing addiction, grief, relationship strain, and career pressures. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Sarah uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods to help people manage day-to-day problems. She often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to break unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness exercises and DBT skills also appear in sessions when emotional regulation or distress tolerance is needed. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps. Parents and caregivers can find help with sleep, anger, and the stress that comes from juggling roles.
People coping with trauma, identity concerns, or relationship difficulties will find a steady, respectful approach. Her work includes coaching elements for clients who want practical strategies for work, study, or life transitions. Motivational interviewing is used to help people move through ambivalence about change.
Progress is tracked by what the client notices is different in daily life. Sarah practices in Florida and offers online options for remote contact. She speaks English and accepts international clients for remote sessions.
Her goal is to make therapy usable and relevant to everyday life.
Online care that uses collaborative techniques
Sarah often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship so clients can talk through what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that get in the way of daily functioning and mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation or distress tolerance is needed. DBT skills teach concrete strategies for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive reactions. Together these approaches give tools for both immediate coping and longer-term change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on how the client responds and what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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