About Sarah
Sarah Hershey is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) in Ohio with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and the demands of parenting. Her work is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
Sarah keeps sessions warm and direct. She listens carefully and helps people name what feels off. Together they set realistic goals and try small, doable steps that can change how life feels.
How Sarah works
She wants therapy to feel like a useful, steady part of a clients week rather than an extra stressor. Her background includes long-term practice working with mood disorders, relationship struggles, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, and challenges around attention and impulse control.
Sarah draws on several well-known methods to tailor work to each persons needs. Sarah pays special attention to attachment and abandonment wounds, communication problems, body image and codependency. She also supports people dealing with divorce and family problems, guilt and shame, or a sense of emptiness.
Her aim is to help people find clearer values and steadier coping skills. Therapy sessions may use talk, mindfulness exercises, and practical behavior changes. Sarah emphasizes collaboration and keeps plans simple so progress can be measured.
She meets with people by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Sarah lists 8 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes living in line with personal values while noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It can help when life feels confusing or when people want clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It is useful for mood and stress problems. Client-Centered Therapy centers the persons experience, offering a listening, nonjudgmental space where a therapist reflects and supports self-directed growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as new issues emerge or progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video invites a traditional face-to-face feel, phone can be a good low-bandwidth option, live chat allows short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats allow flexible scheduling and help people keep therapy consistent alongside work and family obligations.
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