About Sarah
Sarah Bonnette is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 20 years of experience to her practice in Ohio. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or major life changes. Sarah is straightforward and warm in sessions and aims to help clients find workable steps forward.
Before moving into independent practice she spent many years supporting people across child welfare, adoption and foster care systems, and services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Background and approach
That background shaped a calm, clear style that favors listening first and offering focused tools next. She combines attention to safety after trauma with a steady, solution-oriented mindset. In sessions she uses client-centered listening alongside tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work.
That means conversations start where the person is, and then move toward small experiments and shifts that can change daily life. She also brings trauma-focused strategies when past harms still affect how someone copes now. Sarah works with issues such as parenting strain, compassion fatigue, family of origin questions, attachment concerns, ADHD, isolation, and first responder stress.
She also supports people coping with domestic violence, forgiveness, guilt, and the effects of disasters. Her style is nonjudgmental and practical, with an emphasis on strengths and achievable goals. People who prefer clear direction and a collaborative plan often find her approach helpful.
Sessions aim to be straightforward, respectful, and focused on what matters most to the client.
Approaches that work well online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person first. It helps people talk through what matters to them and decide on their own next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors are linked and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns and ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit those needs. Together they will adjust the plan based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging work for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers typing to talking. These formats make it easier to schedule regular work toward goals without long commutes or rigid clinic hours, and they let the therapist and client focus on practical steps and progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Maine, Nevada, Connecticut
- Languages
- English