About Sarah
Sarah Claridge is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with 14 years of clinical experience in Ohio. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and big life transitions. Sarah aims to create an accepting, calm space where people can talk through problems and try practical steps forward.
Sarah blends client-centered work with practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy. She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to help people set goals and build small, attainable changes.
How Sarah works
Sessions tend to emphasize clear, doable skills rather than long theory explanations. She brings experience supporting concerns such as grief, parenting strain, mood disorders, obsessive behaviors, and process addictions like gambling or exercise. Sarah also helps people navigating identity issues, relationship difficulties, and career stress.
Her work includes addressing compassion fatigue and first responder issues when they arise. Conversations with Sarah usually begin with what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens for strengths and patterns, then collaborates on steps that fit the individual’s life and priorities.
Progress is tracked with short-term goals and occasional skill practice between sessions. Sarah offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexible options. She works in English and practices in Ohio as an OH LISW.
If someone is ready to start, they are invited to use the site’s matching process to connect and schedule a session.
Sarah lists 6 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic methods and online sessions that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client's lead to highlight strengths and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort thoughts and feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into patterns of thought and behavior. Sessions teach practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive concerns.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, achievable steps and goals. It is useful when someone wants quick, practical changes and clear progress markers rather than long explorations of the past.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and how they prefer to work. That collaborative decision can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers convenience and flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between contacts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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