About Sarah
Sarah Lacon helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strain, anger and career crossroads. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and self-esteem problems. Sarah is based in the United Kingdom and uses approachable, conversational therapy to help people feel heard and understood.
Sarah aims to make the first session easy to manage. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about plainly.
How Sarah works
Her style is warm and steady, focused on practical steps as well as emotional understanding. Her work pulls from several well-known therapy approaches. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes.
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the session. Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce stress and improve focus. With three years of professional experience and the NCPS credential, Sarah combines practical coaching with psychological ways of working.
Sessions aim to leave people with clearer choices and calmer ways of coping. She encourages hope and progress over time. Sessions can cover specific problems like sleep or eating issues, or broader life changes such as divorce, adoption and blended family concerns.
Sarah also addresses topics like caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and forgiveness in a straightforward way. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
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
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| 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 that fit your life
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person and their experience, giving space to be heard without judgement and helping people discover their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and uses small practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will work with the person to agree which methods feel most helpful, based on goals and what fits into everyday life. That collaborative discussion is ongoing and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video suits longer conversations and a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins and text messaging lets people write when it suits them. These options help therapy fit around work, caring duties and busy days while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional support.
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