About Sarah
Sarah Wall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She practices from New York and offers straightforward, respectful care that aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy lives. Her style is calm and nonjudgmental.
She listens first and helps clients set clear goals. Sessions focus on concrete skills and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sarah uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical strategies. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people with motivation, focus, and emotional regulation. These approaches are mixed to match each person’s goals and pace.
She has worked in counseling, clinical social work, psychotherapy, and school social work settings. That range informs how she helps with parenting stress, sleep problems, addictions, ADHD concerns, and life transitions like separation or career change. Typical areas she addresses include communication problems, codependency, commitment issues, grief and loss, guilt and shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
She also supports people facing seasonal mood shifts, social anxiety, and intimacy-related struggles. Sarah aims to make starting therapy simple. She encourages honest conversation, practical skill-building, and steady progress toward clearer priorities and better day-to-day coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It emphasizes empathy and collaboration so goals come from the client's own priorities rather than a set agenda. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and social worry.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps tailor which tools - such as DBT skills for emotional regulation or motivational interviewing for addictive behaviors - are used over time.
Online formats make this work flexible. Video calls let you have a full conversation and read facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options can help therapy fit around work, school, parenting, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English