About Sarah
Sarah Burns is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and life changes. She offers straightforward, compassionate support and works with each person to build practical steps that fit their life. Her approach aims to reduce overwhelm and help people move forward one step at a time.
With six years of clinical experience, Sarah uses several evidence-based approaches to match what a person needs.
How Sarah works
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice and accept difficult feelings while taking action toward what matters. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills. Sarah emphasizes a collaborative process.
She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals and try small experiments between sessions. Sessions focus on concrete skills for sleep, managing panic or anxiety, coping after loss, and setting boundaries around relationships and caregiving stress. She also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related issues, addiction concerns, and identity matters such as LGBT-related stress.
Work can include building healthier communication, addressing codependency, and coping with feelings of emptiness or shame. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Sarah holds LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) and LISW-CP (licensed independent social worker - clinical practice) credentials in North Carolina and South Carolina.
If someone wants to begin, they can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Sarah lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Sarah’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choose actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, grief, and getting unstuck when life feels overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, and sleep problems. These approaches break problems into manageable steps that are easy to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She may combine techniques across approaches and adjust plans as progress is made so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversations and demonstrations of skills, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can work for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other 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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