About Sarah
Sarah Ross is a licensed mental health counselor with 27 years of clinical experience. She practices in Washington and offers a steady, experienced presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship strain. She emphasizes real conversation and practical next steps rather than quick fixes.
Her background includes leadership roles and a variety of clinical settings. She has worked in community mental health, drug court collaboration with substance use counselors, and marital counseling centers where she taught communication skills.
How Sarah works
Those experiences shaped how she helps people manage life changes, workplace strain, compassion fatigue, and parenting challenges. Sarah uses a mix of methods tailored to each person. She often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts, and psychodynamic ideas to uncover repeating patterns linked to family of origin.
She also uses client-centered and mindfulness techniques to build self-compassion and present-moment coping. In sessions she aims to be interactive and direct when needed, pointing out blind spots that block progress. She also offers encouragement, coaching, and a gentler style when that fits better.
She frames therapy as a joint commitment - real change usually takes steady work from both people. Sarah pays attention to relationship skills, blended family issues, communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness work. She helps people tackle grief, trauma and abuse, commitment issues, and feelings of emptiness while supporting steps toward a clearer sense of purpose.
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
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Sarah commonly blends cognitive behavioral techniques with client-centered work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new thinking and behavior patterns to ease anxiety, depression, or workplace and relationship stress. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can grow at their own pace.She also brings psychodynamic ideas into online work when helpful, looking for repeating patterns that trace back to family of origin and explaining how those patterns affect current relationships. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to decide which combination of approaches fits best, adjusting methods as goals and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills work and emotion-focused moments, phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still accessing a licensed professional.
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