About Sara
Sara DeVaney is a licensed social worker in Oregon with 19 years of professional experience. She offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. Sara meets each person with respect, sensitivity, and steady focus.
She helps people work through trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and the strain of relationship problems. Sara also supports those coping with life changes, anger, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, compassion fatigue, and attention difficulties.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and adaptable to each person’s situation. Sara uses conversations to clarify what matters most to a person. She works to build confidence and motivation, and to set small, achievable goals.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the client’s needs. Her methods draw from several therapy styles, and she tailors the plan to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. People leave sessions with specific strategies to try between meetings and clearer next steps.
Sara emphasizes compassion and clear thinking during hard moments. She aims to make the work feel manageable, even when problems seem big. The focus is on practical change and on strengthening what already works for each person.
How Sara’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people identify what matters most and take small actions in that direction. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about life changes by linking values to daily steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It helps people try different behaviors and shift unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and goals for change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or adapt methods so the plan fits the person’s life and needs rather than forcing a single technique.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow brief check-ins, focused problem-solving, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keeps work moving forward even when in-person meetings are hard to arrange.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English