About Sarah
Sarah Behrens is a licensed clinician who practices in Texas. She has five years of experience working with adults on issues like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Sarah uses straightforward, practical methods to help people take the next step forward. She draws on work in diverse settings, including juvenile detention and psychiatric and substance use facilities.
That background shaped a direct, solution-focused style that aims to make therapy feel useful from the first session. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to address emotions and life changes.
Sarah helps people facing parenting strain, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT issues. She also supports those coping with trauma, sexual assault, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and self-harm thoughts.
Other areas she addresses include communication problems, blended family stress, and sexual dysfunction. Her practice includes coaching elements for people aiming to change habits like smoking or vaping, improve self-esteem, or manage seasonal mood shifts.
Work may include practical strategies, check-ins on progress, and reframing unhelpful thinking patterns. People who choose Sarah can expect a collaborative process that moves at a manageable pace.
She helps clients set realistic goals and tests approaches to see what works best. Therapy can be adapted over time as needs change.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and measurable progress. One common approach she uses centers on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This helps people notice what keeps problems going and practice alternative reactions in everyday life.Another approach emphasizes behavioral change through small, concrete actions. For issues like addiction, smoking cessation, or mood shifts, she helps set short-term goals and tracks progress with simple check-ins. These plans are designed to be realistic and to build momentum over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works together with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. If a strategy is not working, she adjusts it and tries different techniques until something fits.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English