About Sarah
Sarah Feingold is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 16 years of experience. She approaches every person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She aims to meet people where they are and tailor conversations to their needs.
Sarah focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and communication problems. First responder issues, panic attacks, and mood disorders are within her areas of attention.
Background and approach
Her work uses practical strategies drawn from a range of approaches. Sarah draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how they shape feelings. She uses client-centered methods to make sessions collaborative and focused on what matters most to the individual.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and solution-focused tools are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build concrete coping steps. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe difficult stories and find new meaning after trauma or loss. Sessions move at a pace set by the person seeking help.
Sarah emphasizes clear goals and small, manageable changes. She encourages honest conversation about what helps and what doesn’t, and she adjusts plans over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships affect emotions and reactions. Online sessions using this approach focus on noticing patterns in relationships and trying different ways of connecting and setting boundaries that feel safer and more effective. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities, with the therapist following the client’s lead and reflecting what matters most to them; online sessions use this stance to make conversations feel collaborative and focused.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts, feelings, and actions into manageable parts and tests small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. In virtual sessions this can mean short between-session tasks, thought logs sent by message, or step-by-step plans developed together during a video call.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose and adapt methods based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. That might mean mixing approaches or trying a few techniques to see what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when bandwidth and a quiet space are available. Phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or be easier when a camera doesn’t feel right. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English