Sara Thompson

Sara Thompson is a licensed professional counselor with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship difficulties, trauma and parenting concerns. She speaks English and works with clients from Louisiana and internationally.

Sara begins by listening to each person's story and identifying strengths they already have. She believes people know their lives best, and therapy is a place to make practical changes. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps that clients can use between meetings.

Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods, including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. Those methods are used to calm intense emotions, challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, and build new coping skills. Sara also brings trauma-focused and dialectical skills when someone needs help managing distressing memories or strong reactions.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations and tools they can try right away. Sara supports people through transitions like career shifts, loss, adoption or caregiving stress. She also helps with attention differences, codependency, isolation, and problems with impulse control.

Therapy begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step. The subscription structure used for sessions can be canceled at any time, and details about session logistics are provided when starting the process.

How Sara Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Sara uses client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and strengths, helping people talk through what matters most and decide on steps they want to try. Client-centered work focuses on listening, understanding, and supporting the clients own goals.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors together. CBT offers concrete tools to change patterns that fuel anxiety, anger, or persistent low mood, and it often includes short exercises to practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sara will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as goals change or progress is made.

Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and give flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and distress-management techniques to an online setting so people can keep practicing outside of sessions.