About Sarah
Sarah Baumgardner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, LGBTQ concerns, ADHD, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward and she aims to make sessions feel respectful and affirming for each person.
She uses a person-centered approach that prioritizes the client’s own goals and values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and acceptance-based strategies are commonly used tools in her work.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to help with relationship patterns and communication struggles. Sessions often include practical skill-building. Clients practice emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer ways to communicate.
Sarah helps people break down big problems into small steps they can try between meetings. She pays attention to identity and culture and works to create a space where people feel seen. That can mean focusing on shame, building self-compassion, or working through disruptions in relationships and attachment.
Her background includes long experience with children and adolescents as well as adults. Sarah emphasizes collaboration - she listens first, then works with each person to choose methods that fit their life and goals. If you want straightforward support for addiction, trauma, or managing ADHD and life transitions, she aims to combine practical tools with respectful, person-focused care.
How therapy approaches inform online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and values and taking small actions that match what matters to you. It can help when people feel stuck by shame, anxiety, or big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and coping with ADHD symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills that can be practiced between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit the problem, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying one approach for a while and adjusting based on how it feels and what helps.
Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins can work during a lunch break, or audio-only meetings may be preferable when bandwidth is limited. Many people find remote sessions reduce travel time and help keep continuity during life changes. Licensed professionals aim to match the approach and format to each person’s needs rather than promising a one-size-fits-all solution.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English