About Sarah
Sarah Peters offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps, helping clients build new coping habits and regain confidence. Sarah uses talk therapy alongside creative expression when that feels helpful, and she centers each session on the client’s immediate needs.
Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 11 years of experience. She has worked with individuals, groups, and direct care staff, and brings a strengths-based outlook to sessions.
How Sarah works
That means she helps people notice what already works and build from there. Her work often targets low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, caregiver stress, and aging-related concerns. Sarah blends evidence-informed tools to teach emotion regulation and practical problem solving.
She also supports people dealing with relationship strain and family-related worries. In the room she mixes talking, reflective writing, and optional art-based activities when those methods match a person’s goals. Sessions focus on concrete skills you can use between meetings, like behavior changes, stress-management techniques, and ways to respond to strong emotions.
Sarah aims to tailor each plan to what the client wants to accomplish. She helps set realistic goals and tracks progress in simple steps. This approach is meant to feel manageable for a busy life and to create steady, useful change over time.
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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.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter. It helps people reduce struggling with unpleasant thoughts and move toward a life they value. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches hands-on strategies to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication for overwhelming emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through your goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Together you can adjust the plan as needed so the work fits your life and gets to the changes you want.
Online therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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