About Sarah
Sarah Heyn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin. She brings eight years of experience in clinical settings and counseling roles. Sarah focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, and life transitions.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her and treats each client as the expert on their life. Sarah combines a strengths-based, client-centered stance with tools drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Imago Relationship Therapy, and solution-focused techniques.
How Sarah works
Together with a client she builds clear, goal-oriented plans that feel doable. Her background includes work in community clinics, a personal Christian counseling office, and graduate internships at UW Hospital and the VA Hospital in Madison. That mix of settings has shaped her practical approach to everyday problems.
She aims to translate therapeutic ideas into manageable steps for day-to-day life. Sarah offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She notes typical messaging response times during business hours and sets video or phone session times each weekday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
She does not provide formal letters for courts, lawyers, or medical professionals, but will discuss advocacy strategies clients can use. To begin, a person starts the matching questionnaire, then schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- 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
- 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 | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How client-centered and skills-based approaches work online
Sarah blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in ways that translate well to online formats. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflection, and building on a persons own strengths to set goals and make changes. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple tools to shift unhelpful patterns. DBT adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Sarah will talk with a person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as they learn what helps. The aim is to create concrete steps a client can use between sessions and to track progress together.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions suit deeper conversations and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging is useful for short updates and quick coaching between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines while still focusing on practical change.
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