About Sarah
Sarah Bennett helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She supports those struggling with self-esteem, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain and career pressures. She also works with people coping with trauma, relationship or intimacy issues, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Sarah trained in counselling after starting her helping work in Sydney, Australia, in 2009. She began as a telephone counsellor for a national charity. On returning to the UK she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and a university certificate validated by Manchester Metropolitan University.
How Sarah works
She is a member of the NCPS (National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society). Her approach is person-centred. This means sessions focus on the person in front of her, not a fixed checklist.
She offers practical tools when they suit the client, such as cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness exercises and relaxation work. She also integrates hypnotherapy where appropriate, explained as an option rather than a requirement. Over an 11 year career she has worked in schools, at bereavement services and in college placements.
That background shaped her support for people dealing with loss, bullying, course stress and life-changing illness. She combines that experience with ongoing professional development through workshops and training days. Sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging as well as face to face.
New clients are invited to complete a short questionnaire to help match them and to arrange sessions that fit their needs and circumstances.
Sarah lists 4 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and online therapy options that fit your life
Client-centred therapy places the person's experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens closely and follows the client's pace, helping them find their own solutions and build self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical techniques to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful patterns. Hypnotherapy is offered as an optional tool that can support relaxation, reduce negative thinking and reinforce healthier habits when clients are open to trying it.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what feels helpful, try different techniques where useful and adapt plans based on the client's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process aimed at finding what fits each person's situation.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make access easier. Video calls are useful for a conversational session that includes visual contact. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging can suit short check-ins, written reflection or ongoing support between longer appointments. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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