About Sara
Sara Cooley is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She works with adults who are facing panic, grief, addiction, relationship struggles, or questions about identity and purpose. Sessions are straightforward and supportive, focusing on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Sara keeps the room calm and affirming. She listens first, then helps clients set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations often include skills for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and managing daily routines like sleep and eating. Her approach pulls from several proven methods. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful thinking.
She draws on acceptance-based strategies to build tolerance for difficult feelings and on skills from dialectical behavior work to manage crises and strong emotions. Sara has five years of practice as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - and brings that clinical experience to each session.
She supports people working through attachment wounds, codependency, body image concerns, and the fallout from trauma or abandonment. Therapy with her often includes homework between sessions, such as short exercises to test new ways of relating or to practice mindfulness. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sara often uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. This approach is useful for anxiety, panic, mood shifts, and habit change.She also draws on client-centered principles that emphasize listening, validation, and the client’s own goals. That approach helps when someone needs space to make sense of difficult experiences or to build self-compassion. Additionally, she uses acceptance and commitment ideas to teach people how to live alongside uncomfortable feelings while still moving toward valued goals.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. She will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That makes it easier to blend skills work, emotional processing, and real-world experiments in a way that feels manageable.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy into busy days - a quick chat during a work break, a longer video session, or short check-ins by message. The variety supports steady progress while keeping scheduling flexible and accessible.
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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
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Texas
- Languages
- English