About Sara
Sara Griffith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by relationship stress, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, or life changes. Her tone is practical and calm, and she aims to help people move past stuck patterns toward clearer choices.
Sara brings 20 years of experience to her work and draws on approaches grounded in attachment, motivation, and solution-focused methods.
How Sara works
In sessions she helps clients look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also helps people identify small, doable steps that change daily life and relationships. Her background includes long-term clinical work with issues around parenthood, postpartum mood concerns, adoption and foster care, and blended family dynamics.
She has supported people through trauma, grief, and complex family-of-origin problems. Sara also addresses concerns such as codependency, commitment worries, and managing mood disorders like bipolar and depression. In conversation she aims to be nurturing and practical.
Sessions often include exploring feelings, spotting unhelpful patterns, and setting clear goals. She uses motivational techniques to build commitment and solution-focused strategies to highlight strengths and next steps. Clients can expect a straightforward, compassionate approach that centers what matters most to them.
The focus is on understanding relationship patterns, improving day-to-day functioning, and finding manageable ways forward.
Sara lists 3 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment and solution-focused work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help people trace those patterns, practice new ways of relating, and repair attachment wounds through focused conversations and exercises.Motivational Interviewing centers on building a person's own reasons to change. In video or phone sessions this approach helps clients clarify goals, resolve mixed feelings, and commit to small steps that fit their life circumstances.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sara will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. Together they decide what to try first and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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