About Sarah
Sarah Platzer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. She offers straightforward support for problems like anger, low self-esteem, loneliness, and the strain of parenting. Her approach aims to make hard conversations easier and to help people find workable steps forward.
Sarah uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to address day-to-day struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings, and on breaking larger problems into smaller steps. She blends structure with a warm, approachable style and sometimes uses humor to ease tense moments. Her background includes clinical work in behavioral health settings and outpatient care, where she supported people with mood concerns and self-harm histories.
She draws on that experience to keep sessions focused and grounded. Clients can expect a collaborative tone and clear goals for progress. Sessions are offered in English and include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Sarah works with adults facing life transitions, relationship strains, and ongoing attention or mood difficulties. Practical coping strategies and emotion regulation skills are common topics. People who choose Sarah often want direct, usable techniques rather than long, abstract talks.
She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new skills, and check what’s working. Her aim is to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to everyday life.
Online approaches that focus on skills and coping
Sarah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems stuck; CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood, and attention-related difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy brings practical emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills, which can help when feelings feel overwhelming or when routines get disrupted. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck or uncertain about change by clarifying values and building motivation for small steps.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Sarah works together with each person to see which methods fit their goals and daily life. Early sessions focus on priorities and try a few techniques to discover what helps most, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when convenient, phone sessions work with lower bandwidth or hands-free moments, and text or chat can be useful for short check-ins or practicing skills between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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