About Sarah
Sarah Woodward is a licensed master social worker practicing in Michigan. She brings three years of clinical and case management experience to sessions. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she focuses on practical steps to help people feel better day to day.
She uses a mix of methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. That combination helps with mood issues, anxiety, and patterns that keep people stuck.
How Sarah works
Sessions look at specific behaviors and thoughts, and also at values and skills that matter in everyday life. Sarah works with concerns like stress, depression, bipolar mood differences, addictions, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with grief, eating concerns, low self-esteem, social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, and feelings of isolation.
She helps people who want clearer coping skills and more steady mood management. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on individual goals.
Therapy sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with exercises and small experiments between meetings. For people unsure where to begin, she helps set clear, short-term steps and tracks progress together. Sessions can include problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, values work, and motivational conversations to support lasting change.
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
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, mood disorders, and social anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce harmful reactions and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, and DBT strategies over time and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for full sessions with visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to try techniques between sessions.
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