About Sarah
Sarah Garlick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with 18 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and substance and behavior concerns. Sarah focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
She trained at Boston University and has practiced in both program settings and independent practice. That mix means she understands systems as well as one-on-one therapy.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools so people can cope better between sessions. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Sarah often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
She also draws on solution-focused and attachment-informed ideas when those approaches fit the client’s goals. Her work often centers on sleep problems, trauma recovery, parenting and co-parenting challenges, relationship strain, and building self-esteem. She teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, improving routines, and handling life transitions.
Sarah aims to help people reduce immediate distress and build habits that last. Treatment plans are individualized and paced to each person’s needs. She supports people as they try new strategies and adjust them over time.
Approaches to work through stress and ADHD symptoms online
Sarah commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Cognitive behavioral work is practical and task-oriented, with exercises people try between sessions.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That perspective can help when people struggle with trust, closeness, or repeating relationship problems. Solution-focused techniques are used to identify small, achievable steps toward change and to build momentum quickly.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, and clients are invited to give feedback on what feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people work through thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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