About Sara
Sara Curtis uses client-centered care to guide people through hard moments. She focuses on clear listening and practical steps so people feel heard and can start to change. Sara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with 11 years of experience in mental health in Wisconsin.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing relationship and family concerns. Trauma and abuse are also a focus, and she works with issues like grief, addictions, and mood disorders.
How Sara works
She offers straightforward ways to cope with life changes and to rebuild everyday routines. Sara draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and DBT tools to manage strong emotions and impulses. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are part of her approach when people want to explore values and find motivation for change.
Sessions are shaped around each person's goals and pace. In sessions she aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. Conversations are practical and focused on skills people can use between appointments.
She also addresses topics like body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and intimacy-related concerns. People meet with her using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The first steps are a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Sara encourages small first steps and works to make each session feel manageable.
Sara lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Sara works with
The areas below are the ones Sara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Sara commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced through exercises and homework between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms. DBT offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness that translate into short practices and step-by-step coaching during conversations.She also employs client-centered techniques that emphasize listening, validation, and collaborative goal setting. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process; she will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences so therapy feels like a team effort.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can be lower bandwidth, short live chats suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats provide flexibility for scheduling and for how people prefer to communicate.
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