- Strengths-based
- Practical skills
- Collaborative care
About Sara
Sara Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 21 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her style aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.
She believes each person knows their own story and has resources to move forward. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. She offers steady support while people sort through difficult feelings and choices.
In the therapy room she combines a client-centered way of relating with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That mix helps with immediate coping skills and longer-term shifts in thinking and behavior. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-focused techniques when they fit the situation.
Over two decades of work has included many presentations of stress and mood concerns, attention-related challenges such as ADHD, and complex life transitions like divorce, bereavement, caregiving burdens, and medical crises. She is familiar with attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiving stress.
Sara describes her role as providing support and encouragement while people make changes. Her approach aims to be straightforward and respectful. Prospective clients who want a collaborative, strength-based therapist may find her style helpful.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Sara combines a client-centered way of relating with practical methods that address thoughts and behavior. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the client’s lead so people feel understood and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers concrete strategies to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, which teaches specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. These approaches can be helpful for stress, relationship difficulties, mood concerns, and coping after trauma.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful during early sessions and adjust the plan as needed. This helps make sure the work matches each person’s needs.
Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the original biography does not list specific formats. Ask about available online options when scheduling. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy fits alongside work, parenting, or caregiving duties.
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Experience
21+ years
Listed in
Louisiana
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and parenting concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem issues, career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and related mood and coping challenges.
What is her general therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered approach that treats the person as the expert on their life, combined with practical tools from CBT and DBT when helpful.
How much experience does she have?
She has 21 years of professional work experience supporting people through a range of stressors and life changes.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Louisiana.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment or cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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