About Sarah
Sarah O’Brien is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with nine years of experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, parenting stress, ADHD, grief, and life changes. Her style is warm and interactive, and she aims to make sessions practical and understandable for busy parents.
Sarah uses a client-centered way of working that keeps the person’s goals in view. She asks questions, listens closely, and helps people try small steps that can make days feel easier.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and build new skills for coping. When trauma or painful memories are present, Sarah brings in EMDR as one of several approaches to reduce distress and help people feel less overwhelmed by the past. She can also focus on short-term goal work with solution-focused techniques to create quick, manageable changes.
Sessions are adapted to each person’s needs and pace. Sarah has experience with concerns that often come up for parents and caregivers, including stress, parenting challenges, attachment questions, and caregiver burnout. She also supports people navigating identity issues, body image, impulsivity, panic, and phobias.
Her work includes attention to practical life areas such as money worries and career or life purpose questions. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Sarah describes therapy as a collaborative process and works with each person to build a clear plan and usable tools for daily life.
Approaches that guide remote sessions
Sarah uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the person set their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, supportive space to talk through parenting stress, identity questions, or anxiety.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thoughts and learn practical skills. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and impulsivity by teaching ways to change thoughts and behaviors that feed distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sarah will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that seem likely to help, and adjust the plan over time. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers typing over talking. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit around work, school, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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