About Sarah
Sarah Cooper is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies that help people manage day-to-day stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns. Sarah listens closely and helps people set clear, manageable goals for change.
Her practice uses straightforward methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She adapts those methods to suit each person's needs and keeps sessions focused on what matters most right now.
How Sarah works
Many clients come for help with relationships, self-esteem, grief, sleep problems, parenting strain, and career stress. Sarah also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and bipolar mood challenges. She addresses complex situations like abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and substance addiction.
Her approach balances symptom-focused tools with attention to each person's values and daily life. Sessions emphasize practical skill building - for example, emotion regulation, behavior change plans, communication practice, and short experiments to test new ways of acting. Sarah encourages small steps that fit into busy routines and helps people track progress between sessions.
She offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Online and remote formats are available, and she works with clients to match therapy methods to their goals and preferences.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting working relationship. In practice this means sessions start by listening and reflecting, then setting goals that feel relevant and doable for daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with concrete alternatives. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and stress by practicing new behaviors and testing small changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can help with anger, emotion dysregulation, and coping when stress feels overwhelming.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss different methods, try out techniques together, and adjust the plan based on progress and preferences. Clients are invited to voice what helps and what doesn’t so sessions stay focused on achievable goals.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through multiple formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and work well for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, homework review, and on-the-go coaching. These options aim to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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