About Sally
Dr. Sally Goh is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience helping people navigate emotional pain and life changes. She is licensed in South Carolina and Georgia and practices in Virginia.
Her work focuses on building a trusting, collaborative relationship so people feel heard and guided. She uses straightforward, practical methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Sessions often include learning skills to manage strong emotions, practicing assertive communication, and setting boundaries.
How Sally works
The approach is step-by-step and aims to make day-to-day life more manageable. Dr. Goh draws on cognitive and behavioral tools alongside acceptance-based and attachment-informed ideas.
That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, connect with personal values, and understand how early relationships affect current patterns. Therapy also includes strategies from dialectical practice for managing intense feelings and building coping skills. Her background includes work in community settings and addiction counseling, plus experience mentoring other counselors.
That mix shapes a practical style that balances skill teaching with personal reflection. She supports people working through grief, relationship concerns, caregiver stress, chronic health issues, and changes tied to aging. Sessions address specific issues such as sleep disruption, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and bereavement.
Dr. Goh aims to help people reclaim purpose, reduce the burden of guilt or shame, and move toward clearer goals. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Sally lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Sally works with
The areas below are the ones Sally selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life transitions make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and experiments. This method is useful for managing anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and mood swings.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape present patterns and helps people develop healthier ways of relating and setting boundaries. It can be particularly useful for relationship concerns, abandonment issues, and family of origin difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may include trying techniques from more than one approach and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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