About Sarah
Sarah Cooper is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward so conversations stay clear and useful.
She uses client-centered methods to hear what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her work when patterns of thinking and behavior cause pain.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness practice are added when emotion regulation and coping are central concerns. Sessions often include practical tools people can use between meetings. That might mean short behavior experiments, skill practice, or small steps toward a goal.
She also brings coaching elements when clients want help with career choices, motivation, or day-to-day problem solving. Sarah has supported people through grief, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, and identity questions including LGBT concerns. She helps with sleep problems, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and attention-related struggles like ADHD.
Her background also covers issues related to aging, adoption and foster care, and chronic health problems. Therapy is tailored to each person’s situation and pace. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Sarah works with international clients as well as people in Florida, aiming to make therapy practical and approachable.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. In sessions this means the therapist follows the client's priorities and gently guides each conversation toward chosen goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and work-related stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try different tools to see what fits the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that can include skill-building, goal-setting, and short practice tasks between sessions.
Online therapy here can happen by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full-session conversation and visual cues; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can be a shorter, flexible way to process feelings or track progress between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access licensed professionals from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English