About Sarah
Sarah Goyer is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and parenting struggles. She works with people facing relationship and family challenges, self-esteem and body-image concerns, mood and impulse problems, and those coping with major life changes. Sarah brings ten years of clinical experience to each meeting and speaks English.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She meets people where they are and helps them set goals that feel useful and realistic.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills and clear steps a person can use between meetings. Sarah uses a mix of approaches, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her address thinking patterns, emotional regulation, motivation for change, and trauma-related reactions.
She draws on a decade of outpatient clinical work with individuals across different life stages. That background includes individual and group formats and attention to how family dynamics affect day-to-day functioning. As a Connecticut-based practitioner holding LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) and LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) credentials, she aims to provide clear explanations and practical tools.
Her focus is on helping people build strength and stability rather than staying stuck in a victim mindset. To begin, Sarah asks about current concerns and goals, then tailors techniques that fit each person’s needs. The work often includes skill practice, education about responses to trauma or addiction, and step-by-step planning to improve coping and relationships.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping skills
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding to what each person says. It helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting based on their own values and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, and it can help people manage intense emotions and impulsive behavior.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions often start with a short plan and then adjust techniques based on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and interaction matter, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make quick check-ins or brief skill practice possible between longer sessions. These options aim to make scheduling easier and let people use therapy in ways that match their routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English