About Sarah
Sarah Sifran-McClellan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her tone is warm and straightforward, and she aims to create a steady, understanding space for clients to talk and problem-solve.
She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. That can include exploring how early relationships shape current patterns, practicing new skills for handling strong emotions, or identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with time spent on skills you can use between meetings. Sarah brings 14 years of experience as an LPC. She draws on that background to help people facing addiction, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and body image concerns, among other areas.
She also supports people dealing with divorce, grief from disaster, or struggles tied to adoption and foster care. Her work often looks at patterns that come from family of origin and attachment dynamics. She combines that understanding with practical strategies from cognitive and behavioral tools.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change or wanting support with substance use. Sessions can be held via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sarah aims to meet people where they are and help them build manageable routines, clearer boundaries, and stronger day-to-day coping skills.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence how someone connects today. In sessions this can mean identifying repeating patterns and trying different ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it helps people test unhelpful beliefs and develop new coping behaviors for anxiety, depression, or ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for regulating emotions, managing intense reactions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful when anger or relationship patterns cause distress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs. You can give feedback and adjust the plan as you go, blending attachment work, skills training, and motivational strategies when that makes sense.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is useful when visual cues matter and you want a near in-person feel. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or days when typing feels simpler. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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