About Sarah
Sarah Paulick is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She brings a steady, practical approach to helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Clients can expect straightforward conversation about the problems that matter most.
She focuses on building coping skills, improving emotion regulation, and finding small steps that lead to change. Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sarah draws from several evidence-informed methods and adapts them to fit the situation. This can mean working on unhelpful thinking, strengthening important relationships, or practicing new ways to tolerate strong feelings. She also pays attention to how past attachments shape present patterns.
Her background includes many years working with adults who face complex stressors such as trauma, addiction, caregiving strain, health challenges, and workplace burnout. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, and identity-related concerns in the LGBT community. Sarah aims to make therapy practical and accessible.
She helps clients set clear, achievable goals and uses measurable steps to track progress. Outside of work she enjoys time on the water and activities with her dogs, which informs a relaxed and personable style in sessions.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going, which can help with mood, sleep, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it can help with intimacy, trust, and repeating old relationship habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays practical and goal-focused.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when a fuller conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching-style check-ins, or written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English