About Sarah
Sarah VanderZanden is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, relationship and family concerns, and life transitions. She works in Texas and brings ten years of experience to each conversation. Sarah speaks English and centers sessions on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Sarah uses straightforward, person-focused methods to help clients name problems and try new ways of coping.
How Sarah works
She treats depression, grief, trauma and intimacy-related concerns, and also supports people dealing with career pressure, compassion fatigue, or ADHD. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how they shape current relationships. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
She listens first, then helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between sessions. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want to change behaviors like substance use or other habits. Sarah also draws on client-centered ideas that prioritize each person’s goals and values.
Internal Family Systems work can help when parts of someone’s inner world feel at odds with each other, such as conflicting drives or strong self-criticism. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
Subscription plans may vary with location and can be canceled at any time.
Sarah lists 4 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Sarah’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions today. Online sessions can uncover those patterns and practice new ways of relating to others. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s priorities and values, offering a nonjudgmental space to talk through decisions and emotional struggles. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Sarah will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying one method for a few sessions and adjusting if something else fits better. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help maintain continuity of care and give flexible ways to practice skills between sessions.Start online instead of waiting
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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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