About Sarah
Sarah Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Mississippi with six years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, anger, parenting challenges, and career concerns. She aims to create a welcoming space where people can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings.
Her tone is calm and respectful during sessions. Sarah uses a practical, flexible approach to therapy. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on methods like client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, solution-focused planning, and trauma-focused work when those approaches fit a person’s goals. Her style is relaxed and collaborative. She asks questions, listens closely, and helps people find strategies that match their daily lives.
Sarah works with concerns tied to adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, body image, and issues around aging and geriatric care in addition to more common mood and anxiety problems. She also supports people facing divorce, domestic violence, codependency, communication and commitment challenges, and coping after disasters. Sessions are organized around the client’s priorities, not a fixed script.
Progress is tracked through concrete goals and practical tools. People can expect an approachable therapist who focuses on respect and small, achievable changes. Sarah explains options plainly and adapts plans to each person’s situation and pace.
Approaches for online sessions and what they offer
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist reflects what the person says, helps them feel heard, and supports their own problem-solving. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels uncertain about change. The therapist asks open questions, explores ambivalence, and helps the person find their own reasons to try new steps. It can support career shifts, lifestyle changes, or improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is made together and can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is an issue, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, keep follow-ups brief when needed, and choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English