About Sarah
Sarah Treadway is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family concerns, and low self-esteem. She also helps with coping through life changes and common challenges like panic attacks, mood swings, and loneliness. Her tone is calm and straightforward, and she focuses on helping people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
She brings five years of therapy experience and a total of 12 years in social work to her practice.
Background and approach
That background includes work in outpatient counseling, school-based behavioral support, harm reduction services, and crisis intervention. She has helped people navigate substance use, domestic violence, and behavioral challenges in children. Sessions emphasize empathy, collaboration, and concrete steps.
Conversations are meant to identify patterns, clarify goals, and try small changes that can make life easier. She listens without judgment and helps people practice skills between meetings. Sarah has worked with a wide age range, starting with young children through seniors, and offers support for parents and caregivers managing stress.
She pays attention to how past attachment or abandonment issues affect current relationships and sense of self. Practical concerns like money, work stress, and parenting strain are part of the work. She also addresses body image, guilt, forgiveness, and finding life purpose.
People leave sessions with simple strategies to manage symptoms and feel more in control.
Approaches that guide online care
Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and testing small changes in daily life to reduce anxiety and mood swings. This helps with panic attacks, low mood, and steadying everyday routines.Another approach centers on attachment and relationship patterns, looking at how past losses or abandonment affect current connections. Work here includes improving communication, setting boundaries, and practicing new ways of relating to reduce loneliness and repeated conflicts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try a method, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to emphasize as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat make brief check-ins possible between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English