About Sara
Sara Griffith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and the pressures of parenting. She works in California and draws on two decades of clinical experience to offer steady, practical support. Her manner is warm and encouraging, aimed at helping people move past what keeps them stuck.
Sara focuses on concerns that touch family life and relationships. She helps with relationship strain, family problems, postpartum depression, coping with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing issues such as abandonment, attachment questions, blended family stress, and fatherhood concerns. Her sessions emphasize connection and practical steps forward. She often looks at how past relationships shape present patterns and uses short-term goal work to build on strengths.
Conversations tend to be straightforward, with tools and ideas that can be tried between sessions. Sara trained and works as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - in California. Over twenty years of practice have given her experience with parenting challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression.
She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to the work. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. She listens, asks about what matters most, and helps create simple, realistic steps.
The focus is on practical change so daily life at home and at work can feel more manageable.
Attachment and Solution-Focused Care Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand connection, emotional reactions, and how to shift longstanding habits in relationships. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore motivation for change and to strengthen commitment to specific goals. It can be useful for people who feel stuck or unsure about taking next steps. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical steps and small changes that lead toward clearer goals, often using strengths you already have.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they shape a plan that may combine approaches and adjust over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone can be helpful when bandwidth is low or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or fitting a short session into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and stay consistent with care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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