Sarah Bodden-Cheffen

Sarah Bodden-Cheffen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, real-world help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and mood-related challenges.

Sarah uses a down-to-earth, client-centered style. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on strengths already present. Sessions emphasize clear goals, workable strategies, and small steps that fit into daily life.

Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also incorporates Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address how feelings shape relationships and interactions. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools are used to help people tolerate difficult emotions and stay focused on meaningful actions.

Over nine years she has supported people with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, compassion fatigue, codependency, impulsivity, and issues around infidelity or non-monogamous relationships. She has experience assisting members of the LGBTQ+ community with self-esteem, guilt, and relationship questions.

Sarah encourages straightforward conversations and practical planning. She helps people map options, try small changes, and evaluate what works. To begin, clients follow the Start Therapy process and complete a short questionnaire to match with her and schedule sessions.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, anger, life changes, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and then testing new ways of responding. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape relationships and communication, helping people name feelings and change interaction patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying one strategy for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.

The practical advantages of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm which options are offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to schedule checks during a lunch break, use video when visual cues are helpful, or choose audio for a shorter check-in when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and EFT tools to remote sessions to build skills, practice new responses, and track progress over time.