About Sarah
Sarah Heyn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Wisconsin. She brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and substance use. Her approach centers on listening first and building on each person’s strengths.
Sarah uses simple, practical tools during sessions. She helps people set small, doable goals and practices skills for coping with strong emotions and day-to-day challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions can include problem solving, behavior change techniques, and strategies to improve communication and self-care. Her background includes clinical work in a community clinic and a personal Christian counseling office, plus graduate internships at a university hospital and a VA hospital in Madison. That mix of settings gave her experience with a range of life situations and stressors people bring to therapy.
Sarah describes her style as respectful and client-centered. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to create a plan that fits their goals. Together they combine personal strengths with techniques from cognitive and solution-focused approaches.
She is clear about what she can and cannot provide in an online setting. For example, she does not write legal or medical letters, but she will discuss ways to advocate within those systems. Messaging and session scheduling follow a predictable weekday pattern to help people plan care.
If someone wants straightforward, strengths-based support for managing daily life, Sarah offers focused, collaborative therapy aimed at practical change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding where you are. The therapist follows your lead, helping you identify goals and use your strengths to make changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns and manage mood or anxiety. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences, and suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for teaching skills and practicing communication. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for brief updates, homework support, or keeping momentum between appointments. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines while staying focused on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- 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
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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