About Sara
Sara Figueroa is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of practice. She holds the LCSW credential and works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on meeting each person where they are and helping them move toward their goals.
Sara draws on a wide clinical background that includes substance use, crisis intervention, grief support, and advocacy after sexual assault. She has experience across varied settings and with people from many cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
How Sara works
This breadth informs how she tailors care to each person's situation. In sessions she creates a nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings. She prefers collaborative planning so goals and steps fit each person's life.
Treatment plans are shaped together rather than imposed. Sara uses practical methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits, clarify values, and build motivation for change. She also works with stories from a person’s life to make sense of painful experiences and to find meaning after loss or upheaval.
She offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Scheduling is arranged after a short matching questionnaire and follows the therapist’s availability. People come to Sara for help with parenting stress, coping with life changes, grief, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to identity and relationships.
She focuses on steady, practical steps toward clearer thinking and stronger coping.
Sara lists 6 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It helps people feel heard and supported while they set their own goals and pace for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop healthier behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about making changes related to addiction, health habits, or stressful life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences and choose or combine methods that fit. This happens together so plans feel realistic and relevant.
Online therapy with a licensed professional offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer session work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coping techniques, or when someone needs support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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