About Sarah
Sarah Bentley helps adults who feel stuck by focusing on the root causes of their struggles. She speaks plainly about how past wounds show up now and works with people to shift repeating patterns. Sarah is based in New Mexico and has ten years of clinical experience as an LPCC and LMHP.
Her approach centers on identifying early experiences that shaped beliefs and emotions. She uses techniques from attachment-based work to look at how relationships influence present behavior.
How Sarah works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and actions day to day. Sarah also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing strong emotions and building coping strategies. For trauma that continues to cause distress, she offers EMDR as an option to process painful memories and reduce their hold on everyday life.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. She helps clients reframe negative beliefs, practice new ways of responding, and strengthen inner resources. Conversations aim to be straightforward and paced to each person’s needs.
People who reach out may be coping with anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, caregiving stress, body image concerns, or life transitions. Sarah also supports those dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, or the fallout from domestic violence and other traumas.
Sarah lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sarah works with
The areas below are the ones Sarah 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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
How Sarah’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviors, helping people notice patterns and build healthier ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps people process traumatic memories so those memories cause less distress in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will help clients decide together which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning means techniques can be mixed or adjusted over time as progress and challenges arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be used when internet bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, homework, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue care from different locations.
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