About Sally
Sally Millsap helps people facing family stress, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She supports those coping with life changes, relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger, and career stress. Her style is warm and practical.
She listens first and then helps clients find workable steps forward. Sally has worked as a social worker for three decades. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Graceland College and a Master of Social Work from the University of Iowa.
Background and approach
Much of her career has been in medical settings, including inpatient rehabilitation, high-risk obstetrics, and neonatal intensive care. Early in her practice she counseled people after strokes, spinal cord injuries, and head injuries. She also supported high-risk pregnant people, families with drug-exposed infants, and parents in NICU support groups.
She led groups for grieving parents and supported people through pregnancy loss and decisions about adoption. After moving to California 13 years ago, she worked on a Child Protection Team at a children’s hospital and co-facilitated a grief support group. She also assisted parents of children with chronic medical issues and people adjusting to major life transitions.
Sally uses straightforward approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Solution-Focused work, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She values working with diverse people and across age ranges. She is licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and brings practical experience to help people manage real-life problems.
Approaches for online care and practical change
Sally uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters most to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it emphasizes values and small actionable steps.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and understanding without judgment. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they make decisions or adjust after loss or trauma.
Finding the right approach is a shared task. Sally will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal connection. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, homework or checking in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or living far from a clinician.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English