About Sara
Sara Montoya offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She is a New York licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, with three years of clinical experience. Sara writes short, clear feedback and helps clients set practical goals.
Sara focuses on problems that get in the way of daily life. That includes relationship challenges, panic attacks, trauma and abuse, and feeling stuck or isolated. She also helps with issues around attachment, abandonment, guilt, and forgiveness.
How Sara works
In sessions she listens carefully and adapts the conversation to each person's needs. She will work with a client to build clear steps, skills, and small experiments to try between meetings. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Sara emphasizes respect and sensitivity. She frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s values and pace guide decisions. She encourages people to notice what feels helpful and what does not, and to adjust the plan as they go.
Practical matters are simple: Sara offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People in New York can connect in English and schedule sessions through the site after completing the short matching questionnaire. She invites anyone feeling overwhelmed or stuck to take the first step.
Sara focuses on making the work manageable, so clients can slowly rebuild confidence and find clearer direction.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at practical change. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breathing strategies, grounding, and gradual exposure to feared situations. These are useful for people who want tools to reduce symptoms and regain daily functioning.Another approach centers on processing trauma and rebuilding safety in relationships. This work helps people name what happened, understand how it affects them now, and develop new ways of responding to triggers and flashbacks. It can reduce the hold of past events on current life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will review goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they will adjust methods and pace so the plan fits the client's needs and values.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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