About Sarah
Sarah Plano is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also helps people who are navigating relationship strain, grief, career concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
Sarah uses straightforward talk and collaborative planning. She listens first, then helps people set small, doable goals. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill-building, and reviewing what worked between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years working with people facing trauma, addiction, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses eating and body image concerns, attachment and codependency patterns, and challenges tied to fertility or caregiving stress. Her approach is flexible to each person’s situation.
Therapy with Sarah blends Client-Centered ideas with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused steps. That means she centers the conversation on the person in front of her, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood, and focuses on practical steps to move forward. She explains things plainly and keeps goals concrete.
Sarah offers sessions in English and practices in North Carolina. She encourages a steady pace, celebrating small changes while adjusting plans when needed. The process is collaborative and meant to fit around a person’s life and responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sarah blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused Therapy to guide online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation so clients can explore what matters most. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows attention to clear goals and small steps that lead to quick, visible progress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan over time. Decisions about methods are based on the client’s needs, preferences, and what is working in practice.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use writing as a way to reflect. These options help make consistent care easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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