About Sara
Sara Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Sara believes people know their own stories and already carry strengths they can use. In sessions she listens first, then helps name problems and practical steps forward.
Background and approach
She aims to make the space calm and straightforward so difficult topics are easier to talk about. Her approach blends several well-known methods to meet each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to keep the focus on the person's goals.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and shift thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. She also incorporates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and trauma-focused work when people need emotion regulation skills or help processing painful events. Solution-focused ideas help create short-term plans and small measurable changes.
People who reach out can expect collaborative planning and clear steps between sessions. Sara supports exploration of career stress, attachment and adoption issues, caregiver strain, ADHD concerns, and many mood and impulse-related issues. She offers services in English and accepts international clients; confirm session formats before booking.
To begin, visitors complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy puts the person's priorities first and focuses on listening, empathy, and respect. It helps when people want a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide on next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change those patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving coping skills, which can help with anger, impulsivity, and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan as needed so sessions fit the person's needs and pace.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Many people find online sessions helpful because they can fit therapy into busy days, shorten travel time, and make it easier to keep regular appointments. Others appreciate tools from CBT or DBT that can be practiced between sessions. Licensed professionals can help match the approach and the practical setup to everyday life and goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English