About Sarah
Sarah VanderZanden is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Texas with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, relationship strain, or career pressure. She also supports people navigating identity and intimacy questions, parenting challenges, and complex life transitions.
Her work begins by listening to each person’s story and recognizing their strengths. She uses clear, down-to-earth conversation to help people identify what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make small, practical shifts that lead to steadier days and clearer choices. Sarah draws on approaches that emphasize connection and inner parts work. That means looking at how early bonds and internal patterns shape current feelings and behaviors.
She also uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals central to the process. Motivational interviewing tools are used when people feel stuck or unsure about change. Those techniques help clarify values and build motivation at a comfortable pace.
Internal Family Systems ideas help people work with different parts of themselves rather than fighting or avoiding them. Sarah’s background includes a decade of clinical practice across a range of concerns. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Sessions are available in English and are offered to people located in Texas.
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape what feels safe now. In sessions this can help when patterns from the past influence current partnerships, family dynamics, or stress responses. Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s goals and perspective at the center of each session. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offering steady, nonjudgmental listening and practical reflections to help people make choices that fit their lives. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sarah will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to lean into attachment ideas, client-centered conversation, motivational interviewing, or parts work, and they adjust the plan as needs change. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into real life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels most helpful. Phone sessions work well for people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when a written format feels clearer. These options offer flexibility so people can access consistent care across busy days and changing circumstances.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English