About Sarah
Sarah Burns is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. She speaks plainly and listens carefully so parents and busy people can talk about what matters. Sessions aim to fit daily life and practical needs rather than adding more pressure.
Sarah uses straightforward strategies to help people take small steps toward feeling better. She works with common issues like low self-esteem, depression, sleep problems, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Other areas she supports include addiction concerns, communication problems, and life transitions like career changes or caregiving stress. Her approach blends methods that help people notice what matters, understand attachment patterns, and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That can mean learning new ways to tolerate strong feelings, setting clearer boundaries, or practicing short exercises between sessions.
The pace and focus come from the client’s goals. Sarah has six years of clinical experience and holds LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LISW-CP. She practices in North Carolina and draws on work and life experience in her style.
The goal is practical progress that fits real life. People who choose her often want a calm, direct approach and a plan they can try between sessions. If someone wants help coping with loss, sorting out intimacy issues, or reducing anxiety, she helps make small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values. It often involves small experiments and simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions people can notice how they connect, react, or pull away from others and then practice different ways of relating. This approach can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and feelings of isolation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means adjusting methods over time and trying practical steps that fit daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat or text work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use tools that fit a client’s routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English