Sarah Hope

Sarah Hope, LCPC, brings a direct and compassionate style to counseling. She shares from her own experience with anxiety and depression to make sessions feel relatable and human. Her approach aims to help people gain practical tools for overwhelming feelings and recurring patterns.

She draws on ten years of work across community settings, addiction treatment, and private practice in Illinois. Early work with street children in New Delhi influenced her focus on empathy, nonverbal support, and building self-esteem. That experience still informs how she listens and responds today.

Her clinical background includes work in drug and alcohol rehabilitation, individual and group counseling with people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness, and community-focused programs on Chicago’s West Side. In private practice she has provided neurofeedback alongside talk therapy and has supported people across a wide age range.

Sarah uses an integrative method that mixes cognitive behavioral techniques, existential ideas, and humanistic validation. Sessions are conversational and practical, with humor and occasional self-disclosure when it helps the work. She emphasizes learning together while keeping clear professional boundaries.

She commonly helps people managing depression, anxiety, panic, addictions, anger, sleep struggles, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting concerns. Sarah also has experience with LGBT issues, codependency, communication challenges, and young adult transitions. She accepts international clients and sees people in Illinois.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online care

Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thinking patterns and personal meaning. Cognitive behavioral work helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and anger. Existential approaches invite reflection on values and life direction, which can help with career questions, life purpose, and coping with big changes.

Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and make adjustments as progress is tracked over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and let someone join sessions when they are able to focus. Because session formats are not specified here, confirm current online options before booking so arrangements match your needs. Licensed professionals can guide how to adapt exercises, homework, and neurofeedback-related work for a remote setting when appropriate.