About Sarah
Sarah Dubisar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 13 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, and ADHD concerns. Her tone is practical and calm, focused on helping people get through hard moments and find clearer next steps.
She uses straightforward talk therapy combined with skills practice. Sessions often include learning coping tools, practicing new ways to respond, and working on values and goals.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness methods to build skills people can use outside sessions. Sarah’s background includes medical social work, crisis assessment, hospice and grief counseling, pain management, emergency department social work, and work with severe mental illness.
She has also done couples and family counseling, court testimony, independent practice work, and consulting. This variety shapes a flexible, real-world approach to problems. In sessions she focuses on what is most useful for each person.
That might be reducing panic, improving sleep, managing mood swings, or learning strategies for ADHD-related challenges. She pays attention to values, meaning, and practical skills that fit a client's daily life. Sarah works with people in Oregon and offers multiple online formats.
She speaks English and brings a compassionate, experienced perspective to the work without overcomplicating things.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on action and acceptance rather than trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect; it helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and daily life, and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process can include mixing approaches and adjusting techniques as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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